Supply Chain Coordination
LOW ✓ MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Provide incident information to the provider of the product or service and other organizations involved in the supply chain or supply chain governance for systems or system components related to the incident.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations involved in supply chain activities include product developers, system integrators, manufacturers, packagers, assemblers, distributors, vendors, and resellers. Entities that provide supply chain governance include the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC). Supply chain incidents include compromises or breaches that involve information technology products, system components, development processes or personnel, distribution processes, or warehousing facilities. Organizations determine the appropriate information to share and consider the value gained from informing external organizations about supply chain incidents, including the ability to improve processes or to identify the root cause of an incident.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for IR-6(3) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.
Assessment
Assessment Objectives
- incident information is provided to the provider of the product or service and other organizations involved in the supply chain or supply chain governance for systems or system components related to the incident.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; procedures addressing supply chain coordination and supply chain risk information sharing with the Federal Acquisition Security Council; acquisition policy; acquisition contracts; service-level agreements; incident response plan; supply chain risk management plan; system security plan; plans of other organizations involved in supply chain activities; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident reporting responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organizational personnel with supply chain risk management responsibilities; organization personnel with acquisition responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for incident reporting; organizational processes for supply chain risk information sharing; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the reporting of incident information involved in the supply chain].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-6(3). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.
Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →Evidence
Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Incident response policy
- acquisition policy
- incident response plan
- supply chain risk management plan
- system security plan
Testing
- Organizational processes for incident reporting
- organizational processes for supply chain risk information sharing
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the reporting of incident information involved in the supply chain
Other Records
- procedures addressing supply chain coordination and supply chain risk information sharing with the Federal Acquisition Security Council
- acquisition contracts
- service-level agreements
- plans of other organizations involved in supply chain activities
- other relevant documents or records