MAR 06, 2019 | US
BSA Submits Supply Chain Security Recommendations to Congress
Politico Morning Cybersecurity, March 7, 2019
By Tim Starks
The Pentagon’s supply chain security program should accommodate businesses concerned about “opaque” decisions to ban their products from military networks, the software trade group BSA said Wednesday in a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Amed Services committees. The most recent defense policy bill gave the Pentagon the authority to put companies on blacklists if their products are deemed insecure or risky, and BSA said that while it understood the need for these “potent tools,” there was “a risk that such opaque processes” would encourage foreign governments to make “non-risk management-based protectionist” decisions.
BSA recommended that this blacklist program be amended to require “processes to, absent exceptional circumstances, notify vendors excluded from a competition of their exclusion and the reasons for it and to ensure a viable means of protesting or appealing the exclusion decision.” The letter also made recommendations about supply chain research, vendor contract language, and relying on industry standards. And it encouraged Congress to direct the Pentagon to buy commercial off-the-shelf software wherever appropriate.
Original Posting: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-cybersecurity/2019/03/07/next-up-at-rsa-election-security-dhs-and-nsa-536861
BSA 소개
소프트웨어 연합(Business Software Alliance, 이하 BSA)(www.bsa.org)은 각국 정부를 대상으로 세계 시장에서 전 세계 소프트웨어 업계를 대변하고 옹호하는 선도적 연합체입니다. 세계의 가장 혁신적 기업들이 회원사로 참여하며 경제에 활기를 불어 넣고 현대의 생활을 향상시키는 소프트웨어 솔루션을 만들어 내고 있습니다.