Security Inspection Framework and its Application to Use Cases

There have been several threats targeting supply chains. These threats can compromise security of supply chain and can affect quality and/or safety of the product. A framework for mitigating supply chain threats has been proposed where all organisations in the supply chain self-assess their compliance to regulations/requirements. The results of the assessment will be shared to other organisations. In this paper, based on the existing framework, we consider the extension of the conformance validation and the format of the certificate in order to support wide range of the use cases. Then we apply the framework to three use cases and discuss how the framework can improve the security of entire supply chain.