CISA Report Says COVID Stressing ICT Global Supply Chains

摘要

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 reliance on lean inventory models,companies not knowing who junior level suppliers are and where they are located, and over reliance on single source, single region suppliers.