A Systematic Study for ICT Supply Chain Security

Global supply chain security has become a rising concern by most countries all over the world since the 2001 "911" terrorist attacks. Many countries and organizations did their research on supply chain security and many initiatives have been developed and taken into practice. But most of them are focusing on physical supply chain which is addressed in transporting cargos. The study for ICT supply chain security is in preliminary stage, especially lacking of a systematic study. This paper systematically analyzes the security threats to the ICT supply chain, and presents a framework of the security models on ICT supply chain and international regulations or standards ICT supply chain, and meanwhile propose a series of recommendations conducive to developing one's own strategy for most countries on ICT supply chain security in national level.