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Supply Chain Risk Management

What is Supply Chain Risk Management?

The process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks arising from the extended network of suppliers, vendors, and service providers. Supply chain risk management is addressed by NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001 A.5.21, and NIST SP 800-161.

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

What the standards actually require on supply chain risk management

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

Requires a supply chain risk management policy with supporting procedures to be developed, approved, disseminated to defined personnel, owned by a named official, and reviewed and updated on a defined frequency and after defined events.

NIST800-SR-1 · Policy and procedures for supply chain risk management
NIST SP 800-1614 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
FedRAMP High3 controls

Develop a C-SCRM plan for managing supply chain risks for systems, components, and services; review and update at defined frequency.

SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan (SR-2)

Develop a C-SCRM plan for managing supply chain risks for systems, components, and services; review and update at defined frequency.

SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan (SR-2)

Cybersecurity supply chain risk management is integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management, risk assessment, and improvement processes

NIST-CSF-GV.SC-03 · Cybersecurity supply chain risk management is integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management, risk assessment, and improvement processes

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

Questions people ask about supply chain risk management

What is Supply Chain Risk Management?
The process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks arising from the extended network of suppliers, vendors, and service providers. Supply chain risk management is addressed by NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001 A.5.21, and NIST SP 800-161.
Why is Supply Chain Risk Management important for compliance?
Supply Chain Risk Management is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding supply chain risk management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Supply Chain Risk Management?
Supply Chain Risk Management appears in the requirement text of NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NIST SP 800-161, FedRAMP High, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. Across these standards we have identified 21 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Supply Chain Risk Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how supply chain risk management 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 686 frameworks.

See how Supply Chain Risk Management applies across compliance frameworks

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