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Aerospace Industry Scrambles: Investigation Exposes Deceptive Company & Ficticious Employees

ByClaudiu Popa

Nowhere is the need for supply chain security more evident than in the aerospace industry, where seemingly negligible quality discrepancies in products and materials such as steel and aluminum can have catastrophic consequences.

Falsified safety documentation and supply chain corruption have been plaguing the airline industry for the past decade, with potentially weak materials going into industrial manufacturing, faulty flight systems, and now thousands of bogus jet engine parts that have found their way into commercial aviation.

So it should have been a bit of a warning sign to the procurement folks conducting due diligence on this sketchy supplier of jet engine parts, when they saw that the nondescript identity of the “Quality Assurance Manager” included a generic name and a stock photo, along with other profiles cobbled together by a fly-by-night individual whose entrepreneurial zeal is clearly more ambitious than his commitment to professional ethics and public safety.

While this continues to be a wake-up call for global buyers and suppliers of large scale systems, it’s also an urgent reminder to all businesses that integrity, confidentiality, and privacy breaches still converge around the weakest link in those chains. So efforts to conduct vendor risk assessments and insistence on independent audits have a real-world economic impact that must not be ignored. Nor should that impact be downplayed when disasters inevitably strike, because those serious incidents can sometimes emerge as catalysts for positive change.

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Claudiu Popa is a public speaker, cybersecurity expert and passionate defender of privacy rights who engages audiences through storytelling and weaponizes academic courses, radio, television, podcasts, social media and the written word to fight for the vulnerable in society and catalyze positive social change in Canada.