Turning Supply Chain Security into Business Value

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Turning Supply Chain Security into Business Value: How Non-IT Personnel Achieve It. IPC-1792 Implementation Guide

Join us for a practical, business-first approach to supply chain security. This webinar explores how involving non-IT stakeholders early in the process leads to smarter investments, fewer missteps, and clearer requirements for IT and security teams.

Learn how to align security measures with business goals, avoid costly blind spots, and implement strategies grounded in the IPC-1792 white paper. We'll cover:

・Brochure for Management: “Promoting Awareness of Necessity”

・Value of IPC-1792 Compared to Regulatory Compliance like EU-CRA

・Business Risk Assessment

・Pre-incident business risk assessment

・Impact segmentation considerations

・Self-assessment and record-keeping methods

・Incident determination

・Recommended security measures for intrusion scenarios

・Specific procedure example-1: Pre-incident preparations for business continuity considering potential risks

・Specific procedure example-2: Preparing for immediate risk assessment upon occurrence (CIQA)

・Training

・Cost considerations

・Comparison with other standards

Whether you're in operations, management, or technical leadership, this session will help you turn security into a strategic advantage—for your career and your company.

 

Hiroyuki

Speaker Bio:

Hiroyuki Watanabe is engaged in activities to disseminate and enlighten the future of the manufacturing industry from the perspective of security and the international economy. He has published two Japanese books and one English book to support security measures in small and medium-sized factories. He presents logical findings leading to know-how and necessity of security measures for factories and supply chains at the Counterfeit Symposium and APEX. He publishes his cybersecurity findings under IPC's Technical Leadership Program.

 

Since 2018, he has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Rule Formation Strategy, Tama University. Hiroyuki Watanabe is currently the Executive Director of Global Security at NEC Corporation. In 2020, he joined the IPC Board of Directors and is a chair of IPC-1792 Cybersecurity Standard.