Add Trust to Your Supply Chain

With the expansion of data centers, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (“IoT”), ensuring trust in the supply chain has become more important than ever. From the sourcing of components used in manufacturing and platform assembly all the way through the distribution and logistics of the final product, a trusted supply chain (“TSC”) can be established based on trusted hardware and standards developed by the Trusted Computing Group (“TCG”). This article intends to describe the incentives to help prioritize supply chain trust as a major organization issue and to explain the use of a hardware (“HW”) Root of Trust (“RoT”) to establish a trusted supply chain.