[1] Their objective is to combine traditional practices of supply-chain management with the security requirements driven by threats such as terrorism, piracy, and theft.
A healthy and robust supply chain absent from security threats requires safeguarding against disturbances at all levels such as facilities, information flow, transportation of goods, and so on.
They infiltrate trusted suppliers and vendors to target equipment, systems, and information used every day by the government, businesses, and individuals.
Before 9/11 supply chain security was primarily the concern of the insurance and risk management industries; after the attacks more structured approaches were implemented.
[6] The European Union also treated the 2010 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot involving packages being sent from Yemen to the United States, as a significant factor in relation to supply chain security.