SolarWinds’ CISO given complete autonomy to stop product releases if security concerns exist, CEO says. CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna: New software build process designed to ensure much better security against intrusions of the sort that the company disclosed last December. The intrusion involved attackers gaining access to the company’s software-build environment and injecting the Trojan into automatic updates of its Orion network management software. The malware called Sunburst was distributed to some 18,000 customers worldwide, including FireEye and Mimecast.”]