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SolarWinds' banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange
FILE PHOTO: SolarWinds Corp banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the IPO day of the company in New York, U.S., October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
SolarWinds’ banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange on the day of the company’s IPO in New York on October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

At least five federal agencies are confirmed to have been breached as part of a months-long hacking campaign tied to Russia. While the full extent of the breach remains to be determined, Tarah Wheeler explains how a surreptitiously inserted backdoor in a software update from the firm SolarWinds enabled the hack, and what the incoming Biden administration can do to raise the bar on U.S. cybersecurity.