Talk:SolarWinds

Relevance

This article has no information apart from the corporate history that can be found on the companies website. To me it feels it has been written to better their google search result or marketing. Except if every company has a right to a Wikipedia page. Then I'll add my drycleaners in here too. --2A02:1810:3F09:DD00:2022:2F80:CF49:71CA (talk) 07:58, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Hiya. Certainly previous incarnations of this article were overtly promotional in tone (seemingly reading as adverts for the company's "Certified Professional Program [..] to test professionals in five areas", or a link-farm to the company's various subsidiaries and products, or the completely innocuous stuff about "host[ing] an online community"). However, since then the content is (hopefully) somewhat improved. And, as a 2000+ person company (with at least a smattering of coverage in independent reliable sources), the community felt that it met the minimum requirements for inclusion. If there are remaining promotional elements that you think can/should be addressed, then please do take a stab. Or raise here, and we can try and address. Guliolopez (talk) 22:32, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

List of software

I see no problem with the change you've made to include the software but remove the links. It was the huge inventory of links back to your commercial site I took issue with. The list of software itself seems relevant enough. Thank you. Fowartehlluz (talk) 18:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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This article about SolarWinds is out of date. Please consider the following:

Current employee count is larger. According to their LinkedIn profile, it is >500. SOURCE: http://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds

There are two acquisitions that happened in 2012 which have not been included in this article. Eminentware: http://www.mspmentor.net/2012/02/02/solarwinds-acquires-eminentware-for-patch-management-software/ RoveIT / Mobile Admin: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solarwinds-adds-robust-mobile-toolset-113000385.html

Thanks for reviewing this material for updating. 67.79.13.15 (talk) 18:03, 14 May 2012 (UTC)TLandry

Edit Request

Under History, please consider adding: In 2011, SolarWinds acquired certain assets of privately-held DameWare Development LLC, and added to its systems management product portfolio two remote IT administration tools: DameWare Remote Support (formerly DameWare NT Utilities) and DameWare Mini Remote Control.

Under Acquisitions, please consider adding:

DameWare Development LLC

CLCantwell (talk) 15:59, 13 July 2015 (UTC)CLCantwell

 Done Edits look good enough. In the future, please post new sections at the bottom of talk pages. Thanks —  crh ₂₃  (Talk) 08:48, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

References

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because, while - granted - the article in its current form needs improvement (in particular to address the awful "list of dates and things", the SPEEDY nom seems to have been opened as an exercise in disruption to make a point. CSD A7 is not applicable as WP:GNG, WP:CORPDEPTH, and WP:SIGCOV are demonstrated. CSD G11 is not supported as there is sufficient non-promotional meat on the bones to balance any claims of puffery. If nominator feels strongly enough about it, they might go to the trouble of opening AfD(s) (instead of - bluntly - lazily slapping "speedy" tags on several dozen semi-related articles in a clear case of pointy disruption.) --Guliolopez (talk) 23:40, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (the content appears to be neutral. it focuses on the corporation's structure and history. it does not appear to market any products.) --Snsh (talk) 17:12, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

CISA Major Directive 21-01

Keep an eye on this. This is a major, major hack. Initial synopses:

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/12/13/cisa-issues-emergency-directive-mitigate-compromise-solarwinds-orion-network

https://ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/us-government-agencies-including-treasury-dept-hacked-russia-a-possible-culprit/79714031

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/14/solarwinds_fireeye_cozybear/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fireeye-confirm-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack/

kencf0618 (talk) 13:50, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Backdoor

@Zazpot: If you check the Microsoft source, you'll see that it says that the backdoor was likely not native and that it suggests it may have been installed in a library using the standard automatic update feature, an update signed using a trusted certificate. The reason for my edit was that the original text was confusing, possibly suggesting that a pre-existing backdoor was used. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 06:20, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

PaleoNeonate thanks. I appreciate the good intention. If you can come up with a clearer phrasing than the one you originally used (and preferably, one that quotes a more objective source than Microsoft), then I would probably support it. Thanks again, Zazpot (talk) 07:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

The existing sentence is already based on that same source but misrepresents it. —PaleoNeonate – 00:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

I consider this solved, since then there's more information and more sources in the article already. —PaleoNeonate – 13:37, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Additional compromise: SUPERNOVA

I don't have time right now to incorporate this into the article, but maybe somebody else does? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-solarwinds/second-hacking-team-was-targeting-solarwinds-at-time-of-big-breach-idUSKBN28T0U1 Zazpot (talk) 23:53, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

 Done Zazpot (talk) 06:36, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

What does SolarWinds software *do*?

Can somebody explain, in language that a moderately computer-literate layman can understand, just what it is that SolarWinds software *does*?

I looked up SolarWind's SEC filings (the 10-K quarterly), but their summary of business wasn't much better than the introduction to this entry.

(SEC filings are usually not too promotional because they have lawyers reviewing them to make sure they won't mislead investors.) --Nbauman (talk) 16:18, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Additional articles that might be useful to editors of this article:

I've collected articles regarding the SolarWinds hack here: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/. I update this on a daily basis. There is a search page which enables searching news sites that have published articles on the hack and aftermath: https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/searchable.html

wglb

Name change

After the big hack they are now changing name:

https://www.n-able.com/becoming-n-able

I'm on mobile for now. Maybe someone could add it. Dustie (talk) 23:33, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Logo Change / Branding update

The SolarWinds logo and brand colors have been updated. The new company logo can be found on the company website: www.solarwinds.com

Here is a link to the logo file hosted on the company website: https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt28ff6c4a2cf43126/bltfed185f07ccab843/651f0a1c7bedef75ee94d61c/SW_Logo_Web_Orange.svg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=3840&quality=75

Orthopedicshoes (talk) 15:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

SEC lawsuit

The section on the class action lawsuit mentions the SEC intending to take enforcement action, as of early 2023. Since then, the SEC has sued SolarWinds in late 2023¹, and has dropped the case in November 2025². Should a mention of this be added to the end of the existing class action lawsuit section, or should a separate section be made?

¹US SEC sues SolarWinds for concealing cyber risks before massive hacking | Reuters

²US SEC dismisses case against SolarWinds, top security officer | Reuters

edit: I changed the class action lawsuit section to include this, and renamed the section "Lawsuits".

Glacierbaes (talk) 22:27, 6 December 2025 (UTC)