Emerging cybersecurity technology innovations can and must support the design of more secure, resilient and efficient defense-critical supply chains, including microelectronics essential to national security and economic prosperity.
U.S. critical supply chains are under siege. State-sponsored cyber actors are enlarging their threat vectors in both capabilities and active intentional use in supply chains. China’s laws and policies support the active use of human intelligence to gather information regarding supply chains. Recently, Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) supply chain attacks were used to steal data from companies and their customers. These attacks were initiated by APT41 (also known as Barium, Winnti, Wicked Panda and Wicked Spider).
