Leveraging a Tailorable Holistic Perspective of Supply Chain Risk
suppliers , supplies , and service providers but also consider aspects covered in domains identified above . All these things generally apply to the term " supply chain " while supply chain security focuses on the robustness , trustworthiness and resilience aspects of this broad topic .
Within the Industry IoT Consortium ( IIC ) Trustworthiness Task Group activities the focus on supply chains comes from their influence on the assurance of trustworthiness and impact on the trustworthiness of the IoT systems and their operations from the flow of assurance to the operational user , from the systems builder and the component builders as illustrated in Figure 1-2 below , which comes from the IIC ’ s Trustworthiness Framework Foundations July 2021 document [ References , 17 ].
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1-2 . Integration and commonality of trust in the lifecycle of a complex system .
The remainder of this article will address the challenge of delivering trustworthy IoT systems in the face of supply chain risks , offering a comprehensive , tailorable and scalable holistic approach that industry and government can adopt to address this pressing issue .
The MITRE Corporation has been engaged for decades supporting the national and homeland security communities on supply chain risk issues and working with national and international standards organizations to reduce risks in global supply chain security . We have also been deeply engaged in projects that specifically focus on supply chain security for Information Communications Technology ( ICT ), cyber physicals systems , and IoT systems , including national security systems .
These projects also include highly sensitive nuclear and intelligence systems and safety critical systems and the “ trustworthiness ” of these systems , vendors and products . With today ’ s
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