Fortress and Gatekeeper: Theorizing Transitive Trust in Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Governance
Third-party vendors, such as analytics platforms, cloud services, identity providers, and software suppliers, are increasingly embedded in digital service delivery. While these arrangements enable scale and specialization, they also move customer data and security-relevant practices into environments that customers rarely see, select, or evaluate. This paper examines this problem through a document analysis of the November 2025 OpenAI-Mixpanel security incident. The incident serves as an illustr
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Published: 25 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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