SolarWinds Planted the 'Reality' All 'Likely to Get Hacked’: Splunk CEO

The world technologically “experienced more change” in 2020 than in the previous 10 years, “and there are signs that 2021 will be similar,” said Splunk CEO Doug Merritt on a fiscal Q4 call Wednesday. “We are seeing companies with a strong digital strategy outpacing their peers.” Cybersecurity attacks are growing “at unprecedented levels and scale,” said Merritt. The “magnitude” of the SolarWinds hack (see 2103040066) “hammered home the unsettling but ever-present reality of the digital era that all organizations are likely to get hacked at some point,” he said. Splunk took immediate action at the “onset” of SolarWinds to “enable customers to investigate whether they had been impacted by the attack and to confirm that Splunk itself hadn't been impacted,” he said. Splunk’s cloud revenue for the year ended Jan. 31 was $554 million, up 77%.