Securing the Supply Chain - A Hybrid Approach to Effective SCRM Policies and Procedures

Organizations' supply chains are growing increasingly interdependent and complex, the result of which is an ever-increasing attack surface that must be defended. Current supply chain security frameworks offer effective guidance to organizations to help mitigate their supply chains from attack. However, they are limited in their scope and impact and can be extremely complex for organizations to adopt effectively. To further complicate issues, the ability of an organization to identify the scope of their supply chains may be a complicated endeavor. This paper seeks to give context not only to the challenges facing security within the ICT Supply Chain, but attempts to give a hybrid framework for any business regardless of size or function to follow when attempting to mitigate threats both to and from within their supply chain.