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Supplier Cyber Trust Level

Manage cybersecurity risk across your supply chain and demonstrate the trustworthiness of your security practices.

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Supply chain and cybersecurity

Increased diversity and complexity of global supply chains lead to growing cybersecurity threats, and end application ecosystems are only as strong as their weakest link.

UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution aids procurement mechanisms and helps strengthen the overall supply chain. Our IoT supply chain solution helps industrial, automotive and medical device organizations mitigate risk of introducing security issues into their end products, applications and ecosystems that could expose software or system vulnerabilities for customers and end product use.

Leverage supply chain risk mitigation with UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level

UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level helps suppliers and vendors better navigate procurement and quality assurance processes by demonstrating the trustworthiness of their security practices across the following key trust categories:

Software development practices
Software development environment and infrastructure
Hardware development practices
Product documentation
Secure production processes and delivery management
Security issue management
Hosted software
Quality management
Enterprise security
Supplier management

Benefits of supplier trust

Suppliers and vendors benefit from a single security level provided through an experienced assessment and evaluation process. The Supplier Trust Level also helps with an additional level of competitive differentiation via an independent, documented Supplier Maturity Trust Level.

Key benefits

Address and reduce the security risks associated with connected technology supply chains
Supports collaboration and sharing of cybersecurity best practices
Utilizes appropriate evaluation methods for cybersecurity assurance of your digital transformation
Demonstrates the added value of supplier security practices for procurement
Provides external cybersecurity expertise and organizational bandwidth support

Supplier maturity trust levels

Level 1: Nascent – No or few ad-hoc security practices have been implemented
Level 2: Challenger – Basic security practices have been incorporated in some processes
Level 3: Contender – Intermediate security practices have been incorporated in some processes
Level 4: Strong Performer – Advanced security practices have been incorporated in most of the processes
Level 5: Leader – Highest trust level attained

UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level meets best practices, standards and frameworks

UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level helps navigate the current global complexity of cybersecurity by mapping and leveraging security controls from well-known/popular industry best practices, standards and frameworks, including:

NIST cyber supply chain risk management
ENISA supply chain attacks
METI Society 5.0
NERC CIP-013-1UK
Supplier Assurance
ISO/IEC 20243-1
IEC 62443-4-1 & 62443-2-4
ISO 27001

Why UL Solutions’ Supplier Cyber Trust Level

As an independent trusted third party, UL Solutions helps manage the Supplier Cyber Trust Level on behalf of organizations as a time-efficient and cost-efficient process to assess supply chain security risk.