What Compliance Teams Miss About Third-Party Risk

Podcast: Ethicast · Ethicast

Opublikowano: 2026-06-08

Someone set fire to a Kimberly-Clark distribution warehouse in California, caused $600 million in damage, and livestreamed the whole thing. The part that got less attention: he didn't work for Kimberly-Clark. He worked for a third-party logistics company they'd hired. Kimberly-Clark had a supplier code of conduct. They had compliance standards. They'd commissioned third-party audits. And it still happened. That's the reality of third-party risk management — you can build a solid program and still get blindsided by something you couldn't have predicted. But that doesn't mean programs aren't worth building. It means they have to be built well, an...