The email security vendor on Tuesday became one of the first SolarWinds hack victims to publicly announce they’re dumping the industry-leading Orion network monitoring platform for a competing product. Industry experts had considered it unlikely that the hack would lead to many customers getting rid of SolarWinds due to the unique visibility and monitoring features Orion offers.
SolarWinds told CRN the vast majority of its customers continue to operate the Orion Platform, and the company said it’s taking all appropriate steps to protect them. Mimecast declined to comment further on the switch from Orion to NetFlow, and Cisco and SolarWinds didn’t immediately respond to CRN USA requests for comment. Cisco NetFlow has since 1996 given visibility into how network assets are being used, with a focus on figuring out who is using the network, the destination of traffic, when the network is utilized, and the type of applications consuming bandwidth.
Mimecast has decommissioned its SolarWinds Orion software and replaced it with a Cisco NetFlow monitoring system after hackers compromised a Mimecast certificate used for Microsoft authentication.