NIST seeks industry proposals for protecting IT supply chain from counterfeit components

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is requesting industry proposals for demonstrating how organizations can verify that purchased computing products do not contain counterfeit components, a key element of broader federal efforts for securing the nation's information technology supply chain.

“The objective of this project is to produce example implementations to demonstrate how organizations can verify that the internal components of their purchased computing devices are genuine and have not been altered during the manufacturing and distribution process,” says...