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Supply Chain Security

What is Supply Chain Security?

Measures to protect the integrity of products and information throughout the supply chain from manufacturing through delivery to end users.

Information Security

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

What the standards actually require on supply chain security

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

Define the organisation's role, scope, and assets within the supply chain to be secured.

ISO28001-4.1 · Supply chain security context

Maintain inventory of open source and third party components in code using Software Composition Analysis tools.

DS-2 · Ensure software supply chain security

Manage vendor and supply-chain security for ICS components, including integrator and maintenance-provider security, third-party access, and provenance of hardware/software/patches.

CISA-ICS-DID-28 · Vendor Management and Supply Chain Security

Security (Sekyuritii セキュリティ) is the fifth of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + addresses cybersecurity throughout AI lifecycle including adversarial attacks specific to ML + traditional cyber threats to AI infrastructure.

JP-AIG-Security-Adversarial-Attack-Protection-Prompt-Injection-Data-Poisoning-Model-Extraction-AISI-Red-Team · Japan AI Guidelines Security + Adversarial Attack Protection + Prompt Injection + Data Poisoning + Model Extraction + Membership Inference + AISI Red-Team + MLSecOps + Supply Chain Security + Foundation Model Vulnerabilities

The Directive scopes this deliberately at direct suppliers and service providers, which makes the first artefact an inventory of who those parties are and which of them touch the network and information systems behind the service.

nis2-directive::Art.21.2.d · Supply chain security, covering the relationship with each direct supplier and service provider

Supply chain security practices are integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management programs, and their performance is monitored throughout the technology product and service life cycle

NIST-CSF-GV.SC-09 · Supply chain security practices are integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management programs, and their performance is monitored throughout the technology product and service life cycle

Questions people ask about supply chain security

What is Supply Chain Security?
Measures to protect the integrity of products and information throughout the supply chain from manufacturing through delivery to end users.
Why is Supply Chain Security important for compliance?
Supply Chain Security is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding supply chain security 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 Security?
Supply Chain Security appears in the requirement text of ISO 28001:2007 Supply Chain Security Management, Azure Security Benchmark, CISA Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Guidance, Japan AI Guidelines, NIS2 Directive. Across these standards we have identified 11 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Supply Chain Security?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how supply chain security 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 Security applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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