Software Supply Chain Attacks, a Threat to Global Cybersecurity: SolarWinds’ Case Study

Exploitation of a vulnerability that compromised the source code Solar Winds’ Orion system, software is used widely by different government and industry actors in world for administration monitoring networks; brought to fore type stealth attack has been gaining momentum: supply chain attacks. The main problem violation that, from 85% 97% currently development comes reuse open frameworks, repositories third-party APIs, creating potential vulnerabilities cycle product. This research analyzes SolarWinds case study an exploratory review academic literature, information, but also articles reports are published cybersecurity consulting firms providers. Then, set good practices proposed such as: Zero trust, Multi-Factor authentication mechanisms (MFA), strategies as SBOM recommendations CISA guide defend against this attack. Finally, discusses about how improve response times prevention attacks, future related subject suggested, application Machine Learning Blockchain technologies. Additionally risk reduction, addition management articulation IT teams participate all part life under DevSecOps approach.