Suppliers of Critical or Mission-essential Items
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Identify, prioritize, and assess suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The identification and prioritization of suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services is paramount to the mission/business success of organizations. The assessment of suppliers is conducted using supplier reviews (see SR-6 ) and supply chain risk assessment processes (see RA-3(1) ). An analysis of supply chain risk can help an organization identify systems or components for which additional supply chain risk mitigations are required.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for PM-30(1) 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
- suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services are identified;
- suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services are prioritized;
- suppliers of critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services are assessed.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Supply chain risk management strategy; organization-wide risk management strategy; enterprise risk management documents; inventory records or suppliers; assessment and prioritization documentation; critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and service documents or records; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with supply chain risk management responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organizational personnel with acquisition responsibilities; organizational personnel with enterprise risk management responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for identifying, prioritizing, and assessing critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services; organizational processes for maintaining an inventory of suppliers; organizational process for associating suppliers with critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PM-30(1). 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.
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Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Supply chain risk management strategy
- organization-wide risk management strategy
Configuration
- inventory records or suppliers
Testing
- Organizational processes for identifying, prioritizing, and assessing critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services
- organizational processes for maintaining an inventory of suppliers
- organizational process for associating suppliers with critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and services
Other Records
- enterprise risk management documents
- assessment and prioritization documentation
- critical or mission-essential technologies, products, and service documents or records
- other relevant documents or records