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Senators Highlight Supply-Chain Management Concerns in Letter to Administration
Published on 24 Aug, 2010 at 12:50 in Cyber | Viewed 122 times | No Comments
The possibility of a Chinese firm providing equipment to Sprint Nextel has caused some senators to raise their concerns regarding supply-chain integrity, in an open letter to administration officials.
In a letter addressed to DNI Jim Clapper, Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, eight senators raised their concerns that the possibility that…
Incident Highlights Supply Chain Management Issues
Published on 25 Nov, 2009 at 11:58 in Cloud | Viewed 149 times | No Comments
One of the central worries for cyber security professionals is the issue of supply chain management, namely ensuring that hardware and software produced abroad is not pre-infected with added features to allow future access by a foreign power. This issue was highlighted recently when a California man plead guilty to charges that he sold counterfeit computer chips to the US Navy.
From 2007 to 2009, the man, along…
