"Microsoft, Intel and Goldman Sachs Team Up For New Supply Chain Security Initiative"
Microsoft has teamed up with Intel and Goldman Sachs to push for hardware security improvements that could help to mitigate supply chain risks. Working under the auspices of the non-profit Trusted Computing Group (TCG), the companies have created a new Supply Chain Security workgroup that will aim to bring in experts from across the tech sphere. The TCG stated that malicious and counterfeit hardware is particularly difficult to detect as most organizations don’t have the tools or in-house knowledge to do so. The newly formed group will focus on two key areas. First, the group will focus on provisioning to ensure devices can be trusted at every step of the supply chain. Secondly, the group will be helping companies to recover in the event of an attack. A researcher at Microsoft stated that for nearly 20 years, TCG has guided the industry in adopting technologies that enable secure computing, with specifications for IoT and embedded systems, PCs and servers, mobile, and storage. The researcher also noted that the supply chain is the one thing that spans all of these verticals, and experts from TCG workgroups are now coming together to create industry-wide guidance that seeks to make the supply chain more secure.