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supply chain

nounid 4289·updated Aug 30, 2026
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A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems26 citations · 26 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.02.02.b ¶ 203.04.04.b ¶ 103.06.01 ¶ 203.06.02.d ¶ 103.06.05.d ¶ 103.11.01.a03.11.01.b ¶ 103.16.03.c03.17.0103.17.01.a03.17.01.b03.17.01.c03.17.01.c ¶ 103.17.01.c ¶ 103.17.01.c ¶ 203.17.01.c ¶ 203.17.02 ¶ 103.17.02 ¶ 203.17.02 ¶ 303.17.0303.17.03.a03.17.03.b03.17.03.b ¶ 103.17.03.b ¶ 1+2 more

Classifications

Entity Type

Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
relationship with an interested party
plural
supply chains
possessive
supply chain's
pluralpossessive
supply chains'

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
§1
A system of organizations, people, activities, information and resources, for creating and moving products including product components and/or services from suppliers through to their customers.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.
NIST SP 800-531 senseview framework →
§1
A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 23 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources, possibly international in scope, that provides products or services to consumers.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

Incoming relationships