Notional Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems

Abstract

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analyses to advance the development and productive use of information technology. ITL's responsibilities include the development of management, administrative, technical, and physical standards and guidelines for the cost-effective security and privacy of other than national security-related information in Federal information systems iii NIST Interagency ReportsNIST Interagency or Internal Reports (NISTIRs) describe research of a technical nature of interest to a specialized audience. The series include interim or final reports on work performed by NIST for outside sponsors (both government and nongovernment). NISTIRs may also report results of NIST projects of transitory or limited interest, including those that will be published subsequently in more comprehensive form. Certain commercial entities, equipment, or materials may be identified in this document in order to describe an experimental procedure or concept adequately. Such identification is not intended to imply recommendation or endorsement by NIST, nor is it intended to imply that the entities, materials, or equipment are necessarily the best available for the purpose.There may be references in this publication to other publications currently under development by NIST in accordance with its assigned statutory responsibilities. The information in this publication, including concepts and methodologies, may be used by Federal agencies even before the completion of such companion publications. Thus, until each publication is completed, current requirements, guidelines, and procedures, where they exist, remain operative. For planning and transition purposes, Federal agencies may wish to closely follow the development of these new publications by NIST.Organizations are encouraged to review all draft publications during public comment periods and provide feedback to NIST. All NIST publications, other than the ones noted above, are AbstractThis publication is intended to provide a wide array of practices that, when implemented, will help mitigate supply chain risk to federal information systems. It seeks to equip federal departments and agencies with a notional set of repeatable and commercially reasonable supply chain assurance methods and practices that offer a means to obtain an understanding of, and visibility throughout, the supply chain.

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“…And the integrator aggregates lower-level components into a single entity, which will be passed up to a higher-level in the supply chain. All of these communities of practice require a defined process to properly execute their task [7] [8].…”

“…As shown in Figure 1, suppliers source work from lower-level organizations, integrate that work into a single product and then supply it to a customer at the next level up in the hierarchy [9]. There are ten principles that regulate the performance of the communities of practice in a supply chain, which underwrite a competent and capable supply chain lifecycle process [7]. The ten principles are:…”

Supply chain lifecycle decision analytics

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Cyber security risks in globalized supply chains: conceptual framework

“…A supply chain (SC) is a collection of different organizations that align their business processes, goals, objectives and some components of their systems to third party organizations, suppliers, consumers and partners (Boyens et al , 2015). A SC consists of all activities from the point of origin to the point of consumption, which are related to the flow and movement of goods, services and related information (Murphy and Wood, 2008).…”