Supply chain News and trends

Chinese telecommunication sector is fully integrated into the global supply chain. Among the multinational companies supplied by Chinese telecoms are Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, who both produce and sell in the U.S. market. As a result, it is practically impossible to turn away from “Made in China” products. Rather than officially boycott Chinese telecom products or engage in protectionism, the United States could mitigate security threats by adopting an inspection system similar to the United Kingdom’s.

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Often, enterprises expose themselves to cyber and IT risk during the sourcing and supplier selection process when they fail to conduct proper due diligence on a prospective supplier and that supplier happens to be compromised. Other times, business units or users will insist that the buyer selects a particular supplier, service, or part – either because they have already designed the product and it is now mission-critical, or the supplier is the sole source of the commodity and there is no other option. One can envision other, more nefarious ways in which malware or a “bugged” component ends up in an enterprise’s supply chain.

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