Supplier Supply Chain Risk Management (S-SCRM)

The growing trend of globalization and outsourcing provides opportunities for adversaries to penetrate the Governments supply chain of information and communications systems. Their purposes might be to obtain knowledge, gain access,insert malicious code, or corrupt information or components bound for mission-critical systems and networks. Supply chain risk is an increasing concern as globalization produces more complex supply chains, and outsourcing creates greater dependency on external suppliers instead of developing products in controlled or trusted environments.