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Defense Contractor Leidos’ Data Leak Exposes Pentagon’s Documents on the Dark Web

By Alicia Hope for CPO Magazine
Thursday, August 1, 2024

However, the incident will put Leidos, which recently won a $476 million contract to supply NASA’s International Space Station, under scrutiny and could undermine its future prospects for similar lucrative deals. Despite the involvement of a third-party vendor, the primary organization bears full responsibility for the data leak.

According to Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and Chief Architect at ImmuniWeb, despite some government agencies taking third-party risk management extremely seriously, they still fail to address the root cause of the problem.

“Worse, some TPRM programs indistinctively impose costly and time-consuming due diligence on most vendors, without considering vendor-specific risks, threats and vendor’s overall trustworthiness,” he added. “Eventually, the one-size-fits-all approach miserably fails, and despite sometimes-draconian risk assessments of vendors and suppliers, numerous foreseeable but unaddressed risks continue triggering massive data breaches.” Read Full Article


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