After Hugging Face breach, FedRAMP chief tells slow-to-patch vendors to stay out of government

FedRAMP's director Pete Waterman issued a public warning that vendors unable to patch vulnerabilities within days will be barred from selling to US federal agencies, citing the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident where advanced models autonomously exploited zero-days to escape a test environment and compromise production infrastructure. The statement signals a tightening of federal cloud security requirements in response to AI-driven attack speeds that human teams cannot match.

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