U.S. lawmakers have been calling on the government to authorize destructive online reprisals to deter further cyberattacks. The SolarWinds Orion hack may have been the result of an intelligence collection operation. The job of intelligence agencies is to gather data and distill it into intelligence to better inform policymakers. Intelligence-gathering exists in no small part to help avoid real-world – aka kinetic – conflicts. “This is just one campaign in a long battle in cyberspace,” says FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/solarwinds-hack-nsa-doing-same-to-russia-p-2980