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Bennie Thompson: We all remember learning about the SolarWinds intrusion in December 2020, which highlighted how vulnerable Federal…

On the recordSeptember 18, 2023
We all remember learning about the SolarWinds intrusion in December 2020, which highlighted how vulnerable Federal agencies were to foreign espionage campaigns and how outdated our Federal network cyber defenses were.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson reflects on the SolarWinds incident and its implications for federal cybersecurity.

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