A Delaware-based defense and aerospace company has settled a case with U.S. agencies over government allegations that the firm neglected its cybersecurity obligations in its contracts.
ILC — the name the government uses to collectively refer to ILC Dover and ILC Astrospace — agreed to pay $13 million to resolve the False Claims Act allegations involving its contracts with the Department of the Army, Missile Defense Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ILC, according to the government, submitted false or fraudulent claims for payment on contracts with the agencies because it knew it hadn’t complied with the contracts’ cybersecurity requirements over a period between 2018 and 2024.
For instance, ILC allegedly used a third-party company to store sensitive data in the cloud without proper safeguards, and didn’t develop and update mandated security plans for each of its covered information systems.
“The best response to cyberattacks is to prevent them from happening in the first place,” Benjamin Wallace, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, said in a news release Tuesday. “The obligations that ILC violated exist to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of the United States’ technical innovation.”
American industrial manufacturing giant Ingersoll Rand, the parent company of ILC Dover, said it inherited the issue when it purchased the firm.
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