General Management · Professional Ethics

Based on a corporate governance scenario involving the rollout of an AI platform named V-Nexus by Vanguard National Bank—where standard testing was bypassed, vendor selection involved a relative of the COO, an analyst's early warning of 'ghost transactions' was suppressed under performance bonus pressure, a critical system breach happened due to vendor backdoor vulnerabilities, and logs were ordered to be scrubbed—which of the following assessments most accurately identifies the primary failure in work ethics and fraud risk management?