The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with plans to beef up security for the global IT supply chain and, by extension, for the federal government.
On Oct. 30, DHS announced the creation and chartering of the nation’s first Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force. The task force is a public-private partnership designed to examine and develop “consensus recommendations” to identify and manage risk to the global ICT supply chain.
Although the task force is not specifically focused on protecting just the hardware and software that government agencies use, a DHS official has said that one of its key goals is to help prevent agencies from buying technologies with security problems.
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