Know your suppliers: A review of ICT supply chain risk management efforts by the US government and its agencies

Olatunji Osunji
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Olatunji Osunji: School of Business and Technology, Marymount University, USA

Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2021, vol. 4, issue 3, 232-242

Abstract: Every government and enterprise relies on a network of suppliers spanning the globe. This ecosystem of suppliers has been made more complex by the reliance of organisational processes and services on information and communication technologies (ICT). With the awareness that supply chain is serving as a medium in the cyberattack kill chain, it has become necessary to intensify efforts to mitigate the risks inherent in the supply chain of these technology products and services by striving to know who our suppliers really are. The aim of this paper is to review some of the efforts by the US Government and its agencies in reducing the occurrence and impact of supply chain risk on ICT products and services and how organisations within the private sector can leverage on these efforts to incorporate ICT supply chain into their enterprise risk management strategy with emphasis on knowing who their suppliers are.

Keywords: supply chain risk management; cyber security; NIST; cybercrime; CISA; know your suppliers; threat; cyber security strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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