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Strengthening Third-Party Contracts To Lower Breach Risks

Federal Trade Commission websites could have been hacked without security provisions in contract with third-party vendors who hosted the sites. The FTC suffered two embarrassing breaches within the last two months. The sites in question were developed by public relations firm Fleishman-Hilliard, which hosted them on resources provided by hosting and cloud services provider Media Temple. Lawyer John Nicholson, counsel for the global sourcing practice at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, says these days such contract omissions are rare, but they still happen.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/strengthening-third-party-contracts-to-lower-breach-risks

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