Anatomy of a Federal Secret Leak: CISA Postmortem Reveals Six Months of Exposed AWS GovCloud Keys and Operational Blindspots
Executive Overview In an extraordinary act of institutional transparency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—the United States’ primary federal defense agency tasked with safeguarding critical infrastructure and federal civilian networks—has published a comprehensive incident postmortem detailing a significant internal data leak. The security breach stemmed from a third-party contractor who unwittingly published a public…
