Israeli supply chain companies are currently undergoing cyber attack in what maybe a retaliation for what was reported to be an attack on Iranian Uranium enrichment capacity in April 2021 blamed on Israel. It is the second time Israeli supply…
A document to read on Sunday with your croissants and coffee, the SECs 2020 FISMA report. Why? It evaluates the SEC’s implementation with guidance by the OMB, DHS and NIST of FISMA, focusing on a range of NIST standards including…
This should be a good webinar with Ron Ross from NIST, John Weiler from the CMMC CoE and Phil Lewis from Titania discussing the use of cyber standards in supply chain risk management. View Original Post
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. Insurance is a product which we all have an emotional attachment to. We expect it to be there when we need it. So when I needed to make urgent change to a…
So who said SCRM strategy isn’t being developed and enacted by US tech firms? ‘It’s a capacity and skills game’, as with SCRM-Cyber it’s about having the appropriate skills and enough of them within the supply chain to deliver cyber…
A very quick way of impacting global trade and supply chains. Cut the communication cables across the globe. View Original Post
Keeping with the animal metaphors the supply chain security horse has left the starting gate. The US president recently signed an executive order for supply chain security, setting out the foundational work for federal agencies to assess their supply chain…
A great read. Supply chain security is an issue at many levels. The US DoD relies on raw material from many different sources, in the case of the F35 rare earth metals from China. Who see an opportunity to influence…
A great article. Is China in a position to limit the supply of rare earth metals, required for the production of advanced US defence systems? Is this an example of supply chain security being applied by the Chinese on the…
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published the enclosed report last month on the adoption of Supply Chain Risk Management across Federal Agencies. It is a comprehensive assessment of the challenges faced by agencies adopting security practices to manage supply…
