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CISA Report Says COVID Stressing ICT Global Supply Chains

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, November 6th, 2020

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CISA Report Says COVID Stressing ICT Global Supply Chains

The ongoing pandemic has created stress points for the global supply chain for information and communications technology (ICT), in part because company’s lack of deep insight into their supply chains, according to a new report released last Friday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The analysis by CISA’s ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, which includes government and industry members, found three key areas where ICT supply chains have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic: over…

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