NCSC works with its partners to assess and mitigate the activities of foreign intelligence entities and other adversaries who attempt to compromise the supply chains of our government and industry. These adversaries exploit supply chain vulnerabilities to steal America’s intellectual property, corrupt our software, surveil our critical infrastructure, and carry out other malicious activities. They infiltrate trusted suppliers and vendors to target equipment, systems, and information used every day by the government, businesses, and individuals. The cost to our nation comes not only in lost innovation, jobs, and economic advantage, but also in reduced U.S. military strength.

RELEVANT REPORTS, BRIEFINGS & READING MATERIAL

(New) Podcast on Cyber & Supply Chain Threats to the Health Care Sector

(New) Supply Chain Risk Management: Reducing Threats to Key U.S. Supply Chains

•  Tri-fold(PDF)

Supply Chain – Are you at Risk?

• Software Supply Chain Attack graphic (PDF)
• 2018 Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace report (PDF)

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) – Don’t Be the Weakest

      Link!

• NCSC Bakers’ Dozen – 13 Elements of an Effective SCRM Program (PDF)
• NCSC SCRM Framework for Assessing Risk (PDF)
• NCSC SCRM Best Practices (PDF)
• Intelligence Community Logistics and SCRM (PDF)
• NCSC Supply Chain Risk Management video
• NCSC Federal Partner Newsletter : National Supply Chain Integrity Month (PDF)
• Deliver Uncompromised report (PDF)

Thought Leaders: Supply Chain Security

• CSIS Working Group on Trust and Security in 5G Networks, Criteria for Security and Trust in Telecommunications Networks and Services (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies, May 2020)

• Assessing SCRM Capabilities and Perspectives of the IT Vendor Community: Toward a Cyber-Supply Chain Code of Practice (College Park: University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, 2011)

• Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Toward a Global Vision of Transparency and Trust (Redmond, WA: Microsoft, 2011). [also Political and Legal]

• Defense Science Board Task Force on Cyber Supply Chain (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense, April 2017)

• Deliver Uncompromised: A Strategy for Supply Chain Security and Resilience in Response to the Changing Character of War (McLean, Virginia: MITRE Corporation, August 2018)

• How Chinese Cybersecurity Standards Impact Doing Business in China (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies, August 2018)

• Supplier Assurance Framework: Good Practice Guide (London: United Kingdom Cabinet Office, May 2018)

• Breaking Trust: Shades of Crisis across an Insecure Software Supply Chain (Washington, D.C.: Atlantic Council, July 2020)

5G Wireless Technology

• State Department 5G Technology Website
• State Department Fact Sheet: 5G Security – What is Trust?
• State Department Fact Sheet: 5G Security – Incredible Promise, Significant Risk
• State Department 5G Technology Video
• DHS 5G Wireless Networks Graphic: Market Penetration and Risk Factors

Supply Chain Risk Management – Authorities, Policies, and

      Standards

• SECURE Technology Act: Establishment of the Federal Acquisition Security Council

          -  Federal Acquisition Security Council overview (PDF)

          -  Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act graphic (PDF)

          -  H.R.7327 SECURE Technology Act (PDF)

• NIST Special Publication 800-161 (PDF)
• ICD 731, Supply chain Risk Management for the Intelligence Community (PDF)
• Executive Order 13806 report (PDF)

 Tools

•  User Manual: The Outsourcing Network Services Assessment Tool (ONSAT) (PDF)

Supply Chain Resources

• Department of Defense resources
• Department of Homeland Security resources
• UK National Cyber Security Centre resources

Additional Resources

• National Cyber Strategy of the United States - September 2018 (PDF)
• National Security Strategy 2017 (PDF)
• National Counterintelligence Strategy 2016 (PDF)
• Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (PDF)
• Supply Chain Risk Management CNSSD 505
• Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force Report on Cyber Supply Chain
• DNI ICD 731 Supply Chain Risk Management 20131207 (PDF)
• DNI ICD 731-01 Supply Chain Criticality Assessment 20151002 (PDF)
• DNI ICD 731-02 Supply Chain Threat Assessments 20160517 (PDF)
• DNI ICD 731-03 Supply Chain Information Sharing (PDF)