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Supply Chain Risk

What is Supply Chain Risk?

Risks arising from dependencies on suppliers and partners in the supply chain, including disruptions, quality issues, and security vulnerabilities.

Risk Management

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as supply chain risk. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on supply chain risk

Requirements naming supply chain risk across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Requires a plan for managing supply chain risk for the system, reviewed and updated and protected from disclosure.

161R1-SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan →

Identify, prioritize, and assess suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services.

NIST800-PM-30(1) · PM-30(1) Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy | Suppliers of Critical or Mission-essential Items →
NIST SP 800-1619 controls

Dedicated supply chain risk management controls including the C-SCRM plan, supplier assessments, and component tamper resistance.

SP800-161-CONTROLS-SR · ICT SCRM Control Family: Supply Chain Risk Management →

The organisation develops an organisation-wide strategy for managing supply chain risks in the development, acquisition, maintenance and disposal of systems, components and services, implements it consistently, and reviews and updates it at a set frequency or...

canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::PM-30 · PM-30 Supply chain risk management strategy →

Establish a supply chain risk management team consisting of [Assignment: organization-defined personnel, roles, and responsibilities] to lead and support the following SCRM activities: [Assignment: organization-defined supply chain risk management activities].

nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::SR-2(1) · SR-2(1) Supply Chain Risk Management Plan | Establish SCRM Team →

Establish a supply chain risk management team consisting of [Assignment: organization-defined personnel, roles, and responsibilities] to lead and support the following SCRM activities: [Assignment: organization-defined supply chain risk management activities].

nist-sp-800-53-rev-5-low::SR-2(1) · SR-2(1) Supply Chain Risk Management Plan | Establish SCRM Team →

Questions people ask about supply chain risk

What is Supply Chain Risk?
Risks arising from dependencies on suppliers and partners in the supply chain, including disruptions, quality issues, and security vulnerabilities.
Why is Supply Chain Risk important for compliance?
Supply Chain Risk is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding supply chain risk helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Supply Chain Risk?
Supply Chain Risk appears in the requirement text of NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NIST SP 800-161, Canada ITSP.10.033 Security and Privacy Controls and Assurance Activities Catalogue, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 HIGH. Across these standards we have identified 59 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Supply Chain Risk?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how supply chain risk applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Supply Chain Risk applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.