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Imagine getting the call: your organization has been breached. Not because your team failed, but because a trusted vendor got compromised—and attackers used that access to walk right into your systems.
That’s not hypothetical. In December 2024, the US Treasury Department—one of the most security-conscious organizations in the world—was breached this way. Chinese state-sponsored actors gained access to more than 3,000 files through a vendor that had already passed security audits and compliance checks.
If even the Treasury can’t prevent a vendor-based breach with unlimited resources, what does that mean for everyone else?
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
- Passing audits doesn’t mean a vendor is secure.
- Compliance reports don’t protect you from real-world attacks.
- Vendor trust can turn into your biggest vulnerability overnight.
The real problem is governance. Too many organizations treat vendor risk as a box-checking exercise: SOC 2 report filed? Approved. Security questionnaire complete? Trusted. And then that vendor gets permanent access to systems, data, or networks. Until something goes wrong.
Modern threats require a different mindset:
- Treat every vendor as a potential attack vector.
- Continuously evaluate their risk exposure, not just once.
- Build incident response plans that assume vendor compromise.
That shift—from compliance to governance—is what separates security programs that survive a vendor breach from those that collapse under it.
And it’s exactly what our CISM Bootcamp and CISM MasterClass are designed to teach. We go beyond technical security, helping you build governance structures that assume compromise and still protect the organization.
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Your vendors will always be someone else’s attack surface. Make sure your governance frameworks are ready.
Stay secure,
The DestCert Team
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