Let’s look at the critical tasks involved with the Supply Chain Integrity and Security capability.

• Integrate security processes into supply chain operations to identify items of concern and resolve them as early in the process as possible.
• Analyze key dependencies and interdependencies related to supply chain operations.
• Use risk management principles to identify, mitigate the vulnerabilities of, and protect key assets, infrastructure, and support systems.
• Implement physical protections, countermeasures, and policies to secure and make resilient key nodes, methods of transport between nodes, and materials in transit.
• Use verification and detection capabilities to identify goods that are not what they are represented to be, are contaminated, are not declared, or are prohibited; and to prevent cargo from being compromised or misdirected as it moves through the system.
• Use layers of defense to protect against a diverse range of traditional and asymmetric threats. These layers include intelligence and information analysis; appropriate use of technology; effective laws, regulations, and policies; properly trained and equipped personnel; and effective partnerships.