Home Affairs launches new principles for critical technology supply chain security

guest · Nov 14, 2021

Home Affairs launches new principles for critical technology supply chain security
November 14, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/home-...or-critical-technology-supply-chain-security/

The federal government has released a new set of voluntary principles aimed at providing guidance to organisations in how they protect critical technologies from cyber attacks.

Labelled the Critical Technology Supply Chain Principles, Minister of Home Affairs Karen Andrews said the voluntary principles were designed to give organisations and consumers the confidence to allocate more resources towards critical emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, blockchain, and algorithmic automation.

"These principles come at a vital time -- both for Australia and for our critical industries. We face unprecedented threats from a range of malicious cyber actors, growing geostrategic uncertainty, and are increasingly reliant on technologies that can be hacked, held to ransom, or otherwise disrupted," Andrews said.
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The principles were developed in partnership with industry, non-government organisations, state and territory governments, and the community.

There are 10 new principles in total, with the four of them being: Understand what needs to be protected, why it needs to be protected, and how it can be protected; understand the different security risks posed by an organisation's supply chain; build security considerations into all organisational processes, including into contracting processes that are proportionate to the level of risk; and raise awareness of and promote security within supply chains;
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Home Affairs: Critical Technology Supply Chain Principles

The Australian Government has released the Critical Technology Supply Chain Principles. These will help governments and businesses to decide about suppliers and the transparency of their own products.

We have grouped the ten Principles under the three pillars of security-by-design, transparency, and autonomy and integrity.
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(PDF): https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/cyber-security-subsite/files/critical-technology-supply-chain-principles.pdf

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