
A task force launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber security agency that is focused on supply chain risk management for information and communications technology (ICT) began meeting last week and has identified four initial efforts related to information sharing, evaluating technologies for threats, developing qualified lists of bidders and manufacturers, and incentivizing the purchase of technologies from their original manufacturers and authorized sellers. The public-private ICT Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force “is the main private sector…