Selection criteria for higher priority assets include evaluation of bills of material for key asset elements, such as hardware and software
The creation, manufacturing, and assembly of assets supplied by third-parties often comprise many sub-parts and sub-components sourced from other vendors and suppliers. Organizations that acquire these assets from third-parties may unknowingly inherit cyber risks that have not been identified or mitigated. A bill of materials establishes and itemizes the source of sub-parts and sub-components for acquired assets, including their origin and any additional information that can help the organization establish a determination of inherited risk. Examples of these sub-parts and sub-components could be incorporating software routines from an open source libraries as a component of a software build or the sourcing of parts in a security camera from a known hostile nation-state.
Related Practices · Input From: Implementing ASSET-1c provides input that may be useful for implementing this practice. · Progression: This practice is part of a practice progression. Practice progressions are groups of related practices that represent increasingly complete or more advanced implementations of an activity. The practices in this progression include: THIRD-PARTIES-2b, THIRD-PARTIES-2i, THIRD-PARTIES-2j, THIRD-PARTIES-2k, THIRD-PARTIES-2l, THIRD-PARTIES-2m.