SonicWall Partners On High Alert After Hack Exposes Tool Flaw
‘This has been extreme pain. People are annoyed and upset, but understand it could have been a lot worse if they had been breached,’ Silicon East President Marc Harrison tells CRN. By Michael Novinson January 25, 2021, 12:50 PM EST
SonicWall’s 21,000 channel partners had a very long weekend after the company admitted a sophisticated cyberattack against its internal systems had revealed zero-day product vulnerabilities.
Silicon East President Marc Harrison and two of his employees put in 36 hours of work Saturday and Sunday with almost no sleep after the Milpitas, Calif.-based platform security vendor disclosed it was hacked in at 11:15 p.m. ET Friday. The Marlboro, N.J.-based partner has 17 customers with 800 users on versions of the NetExtender VPN client or SMA 100 product that were initially reported compromised.