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New Video Highlights Foreign Risks to Private Sector Supply Chains
Video is latest effort to inform government and industry about supply chain threats

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 18-16 
August 11, 2016

New Video Highlights Foreign Risks to Private Sector Supply Chains
Video is latest effort to inform government and industry about supply chain threats

The Office of the Director of
National Intelligence’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center
has publicly released a video highlighting the threats foreign entities
pose to the private sector’s supply chain and to the public sector
organizations that utilize private sector goods and services. The video,
which debuted last month at a Supply Chain Risk Management conference
that included senior U.S. telecommunications officials, coincides with
other NCSC efforts to help government and industry address supply chain
risks.

NCSC leads the integration of the U.S. government’s
counterintelligence and security activities for the common purpose of
countering foreign intelligence threats to information and assets
critical to our nation’s security. NCSC provides counterintelligence
outreach to U.S. government and private sector entities, as well as
issues public warnings regarding intelligence threats to the U.S.


The video raises awareness of increased risk to supply chains due to
the evolving dependence on globally sourced commercial information and
technologies for mission critical systems and services. The risks are
passed to end users through products and services that may contain
defective, counterfeit or otherwise tainted components—such as
compromised telecommunications equipment.

“Our adversaries are
trying to figure out what U.S. industry—whether telecom or defense—will
be doing three years from now,” said Bill Evanina, Director of NCSC.
That is why NCSC and the ODNI are trying to find creative ways to help
U.S. industry protect its supply chain and thereby help protect
America."

In addition to the video, NCSC will help federal agencies and industry through several other measures, including:

• Providing threat briefings to government partners and eventually to industry;
• Developing
  a SCRM blueprint for executive branch agencies, which can also apply to
  any organization that acquires goods and services; and
• Developing
  a SCRM publicly available on-line training course that will introduce
  government partners and interested industry to SCRM and the elementary
  efforts they can use to protect their acquisition processes against
  supply chain subversion.
  

To see the video, please see the following link:  Supply Chain Risk Management   
For additional information on supply chain issues and NCSC and ODNI, go to ncsc.gov  and odni.gov.
Please also see Bloomberg’s article on supply chain issues.