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AI Vendor Incident History: Due Diligence Before You Sign
Vendor AI incidents become your incidents. Researching vendor incident history before signing protects against repeat exposure.
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- 1The premise
- 2vendor due diligence
- 3incident history
- 4risk assessment
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The premise
Vendors with concerning incident history will likely repeat; due diligence catches patterns before contract.
What AI does well here
- Search public sources (news, security databases) for vendor AI incidents
- Ask vendors directly about incident history (their answer is itself a signal)
- Talk to existing vendor customers about their experience with incidents
- Build incident-history requirements into RFP and contract terms
What AI cannot do
- Find every vendor incident (some go undisclosed)
- Predict future vendor incidents from past
- Substitute history check for actual security review
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