The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) has decided to extend the tenure of the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force for two years. This elongation will facilitate the collaboration of the task force with CISA’s freshly established artificial intelligence working group, while simultaneously persisting in the advancement of solutions and offerings akin to the triumph of the Software. Assurance Buyers Guide, as declared by CISA on Tuesday.
ICT SCRM is spearheaded by CISA’s public-private consultative entities, namely the National Risk Management Center Council and the Information Technology and Communications Sector Coordinating Council.
In the solitary year of 2023, the task force authored and disseminated the Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Resource Handbook, Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Resource Guide, and the Hardware Bill of Materials Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management.
“The Task Force has recently inaugurated an Artificial Intelligence Working Group to discern Al-associated supply chain vulnerabilities and countermeasures. We enthusiastically embrace the reauthorization of the Task Force charter and persist in our crucial endeavors to confront our mutual supply chain risk management obstacles, articulated John Miller, Vice President of Policy and Senior Counsel at ITI, and IT sector co-chair of ICT SCRM.