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supply chain risk

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A risk measured by the likelihood and severity of damage if an Information Technology or Operations Technology system is compromised by a supply chain attack, and takes into account the importance of the system and the impact of compromise on organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. Supply chain attacks may involve manipulating computing system hardware, software, or services at any point during the life cycle. Supply chain attacks are typically conducted or facilitated by individuals or organizations that have access through commercial ties, leading to stolen critical data and technology, corruption of the system/ infrastructure, and/or disabling of mission-critical operations.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems13 citations · 13 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.11.01.a03.17.0103.17.01.a03.17.01.b03.17.01.c03.17.01.c ¶ 103.17.01.c ¶ 103.17.01.c ¶ 203.17.02 ¶ 103.17.02 ¶ 203.17.02 ¶ 303.17.03.b3.2.1 ¶ 60

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
factor that may increase risk from supply chain attacks
plural
supply chain risks
possessive
supply chain risk's
pluralpossessive
supply chain risks'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
A risk measured by the likelihood and severity of damage if an Information Technology or Operations Technology system is compromised by a supply chain attack, and takes into account the importance of the system and the impact of compromise on organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. Supply chain attacks may involve manipulating computing system hardware, software, or services at any point during the life cycle. Supply chain attacks are typically conducted or facilitated by individuals or organizations that have access through commercial ties, leading to stolen critical data and technology, corruption of the system/ infrastructure, and/or disabling of mission-critical operations.
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 12 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 risk measured by the likelihood and severity of damage if an Information Technology or Operations Technology system is compromised by a supply chain attack, and takes into account the importance of the system and the impact of compromise on organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. Supply chain attacks may involve manipulating computing system hardware, software, or services at any point during the life cycle. Supply chain attacks are typically conducted or facilitated by individuals or organizations that have access through commercial ties, leading to stolen critical data and technology, corruption of the system/ infrastructure, and/or disabling of mission-critical operations.
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