As cyber crime and other malicious cyber activities continue to rise, every individual and organization must do their part to practice good cyber hygiene and mitigate their cyber risk. CTPAT Bulletin – Cyber Essentials – Your Leadership! – October 2021(508)
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From CTPAT: Cybersecurity – Stop Ransomware – U.S. Government Website
- From CTPAT: Cybersecurity – Stop Ransomware – U.S. Government Website: A CTPAT Alert has been uploaded to the CTPAT Portal’s Public Documents/Public Library section. Please disseminate to your trade members and colleagues.
CBP-Forced Labor document Developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Trade, was recently made available to the trade community as part of this week’s CBP Trade Week
A CBP-Forced Labor document, has been developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Trade, and recently made available to the trade community as part of this week’s CBP Trade Week.
It is up to all of us to eliminate the practice of forced labor. But the U.S. Government cannot address the presence of forced labor practices in the supply chain by itself. First, because U.S. legislation alone will not ensure overall global compliance. And second, governments need to work with the owners of the supply chain in order to be able to have a serious impact in eradicating it. This is why CBP developed a holistic approach, one where the U.S. partners with foreign governments, partner government agencies, industry and civil society to enhance and improve information collection, prevention, enforcement, and remediation. And the enforcement of national and international obligations should be aligned with pre-existing government-endorsed initiatives like the World Customs Organization’s Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program.
The CTPAT trade community, the companies that CBP trusts the most, must play a proactive role in the elimination of this practice by becoming force multipliers in CBP’s efforts to eradicate this practice. Importers in particular, in exercising reasonable care and conducting their due diligence, must ensure that their suppliers and business partners are not engaged in any type of forced labor practices. CTPAT and AEO importers and exporters across the globe must adhere to their national and international obligations, and develop documented and verifiable procedures that demonstrate their due diligence in working towards a supply chain free of forced labor practices.
As part of CBP’s Trade Week, the Office of Trade also made available a document from The Human Trafficking Legal Center. As with other important resources, both of these documents have been uploaded to the CTPAT Portal’s Public Documents/Public Library section. Please disseminate to your trade members and business partners.
How a CTPAT Importer and/or Exporter Member may be able to reach Tier III status.
July 23, 2021
A CTPAT Best Practices Framework document has been uploaded to both the CTPAT Portal (Public Documents/Public Library) and the CBP-CTPAT website.
This Framework was developed in collaboration with the private sector and it now defines how a CTPAT Importer and/or Exporter Member may be able to reach Tier III status.
BSI is Providing Complimentary Access to In-depth COVID-19 Related Supply Chain Insights and Intelligence
April 2020 – BSI, the business improvement company, announced today that they are providing open access to the COVID-19 section of their Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN) tool.
SCREEN is a web-based, comprehensive global supply chain intelligence system available by subscription, which includes valuable information for companies to anticipate, quickly respond to, and avoid supply chain disruptions.
As referenced in BSI’s recently released Supply Chain Risk Insights 2020 Report, the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the current fragility of global supply chains, wherein the failure of one link in the chain has the potential to cause extensive disruptions throughout.
As the pandemic has progressed, causing considerable disruption to every-day life and a negative impact on the workforce, companies have had to significantly re-evaluate their supply chains. Initially this was caused by the downtime and slowed restart of Chinese manufacturing, however the continued spread of the pandemic has led to complex and varied responses by individual governments to contain the virus, creating further disruptions and requiring businesses to adopt adaptive business continuity measures.
Whether this means that restaurants are closing their dining rooms and only providing carry-out and delivery, or hospitals restricting access to anyone other than critical patients, the New Not Normal is here and the need for comprehensive business continuity planning that considers all types of potential natural disasters, including disease outbreaks, has never been more acute.
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak about how to better mitigate disease spread and absorb delays to manufacturing and global shipping will shape how organizations and supply chains are effectively able to respond to other disruptions in the future.
For this reason, BSI is providing open access to SCREEN’s COVID-19 intelligence. “These insights will allow companies to sharpen their actions in the face of this crisis, focus their business continuity plans for their recovery and have a stronger continuity plan for the future,” said Jim Yarbrough, Global Intelligence Program Manager at BSI. “Our priority is to bring the global community reliable and actionable insights and information, curated by our team of experts, around COVID-19 to protect public health and mitigate business disruption.”
To view the SCREEN COVID-19 intelligence, visit: screen.bsigroup.com/Covid19/
