Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corp.

Opinion

1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020-1401 Tal: +4.212.906.1200 Fax: +1.212.751.4864 wwiw.lw.com FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES Austin Milan Beijing Munich Boston New York Brussels Orange County Century City Paris Chicago Riyadh May 17, 9024 Dubai San Diego Dusseidort San Francisco Frankfurt Seoul VIA ECF Hamburg Stlicon Valley Hong Kong Singapore The Honorable Paul A. Engelmayer Houston Tel Aviv United States District Court tendon Tokyo Southern District of New York Mean Washington, 40 Foley Square New York; New York 10007 Re: SEC vy, SolarWinds Corp. et al., 1:23-cv-09518-PAE-BCM Dear Judge Engelmayer: On behalf of SclarWinds Corp. (“SolarWinds”) and Timothy G. Brown (collectively, “Defendants”), we write pursuant to Rule 4.B of the Court’s Individual Rules and Practices to respectfully request the Court’s permission to file Exhibit A to Defendants’ May 17, 2024 Letter to the Court (the “Email Chain”) with redactions. Defendants respectfully submit that good cause exists for filing the Email Chain with the proposed redactions. The redacted information is irrelevant to the issues raised in Defendants’ letter and consists of forensic information relating to how SolarWinds software maintains security logs, which could pose a security risk if made public. See Personalized Media Communs., LLC v. Netflix, Inc., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218085, at *5-6 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 19, 2020) (permitting pealing where information could be “used by malicious third parties to attack the [defendant’s] service”); see also Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited v. TriZetto Group., 2021 WL 1541385, at *3 (granting a motion to sea! with respect to “confidential and proprietary information regarding [defendant’s] . . . information security”). Here, given the sensitive nature of the information—which could be exploited by a future threat actor—redaction is warranted. Consistent with Section 4.B.2 of the Court’s Individual Rules and Practices in Civil Cases, Defendants will contemporaneously file the proposed redacted document under seal via ECF. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Serrin Turner GRANTED. Serrin Turner SO ORDERED. ay of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP i ~ | Fad i < ks A le } PAUL A. ENGELMAYER United States District Judge May 21, 2024