Technovation 34 (2014) 339–341

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Editorial

The challenge of cyber supply chain security to research and practice – An introduction a b s t r a c t
The tremendous potential to assist or degrade economic and national security performance make security in the cyber supply chain a topic of critical importance. This is reflected by the tremendous activity in the public and private sector to better understand the myriad of cyber challenges, identifying existing gaps and needs and closing these gaps as quickly and firmly as possible through government policy initiatives, public/private partnerships, and legal/insurance penalty and incentive regimes. However when we examine the academic literature, the research and publications in this area are rather sparse. Consequently, this special issue on Security in the Cyber Supply Chain is intended to act as a resource to practitioners and as a call to research.
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Introduction
In general, the cyber supply chain provides tremendous advances in efficiency and effectiveness. The economy gains through transactions being more efficient through the low cost rapid transmission of information related to supply chain management. Not only does this rapid transmission reduce cost, but it also provides value through increased effectiveness allowing for services and decisions that were not possible previously. This flow of information allows for the reduction of supply chain risk through inventory pooling, postponement, reduction of the bullwhip effect and other benefits (Mangina and Vlachos, 2005; Guo et al., 2006;
Kumar and Budin, 2006; McMeekin et al., 2006; Kumar et al.,
2009a,b; Li et al., 2009; Narasimhan and Talluri, 2009; Evdokimov et al., 2011; Giannakis and Louis,