New supply-chain security standard put forward by the Open Group in April could end up having a huge impact on you. It’s meant to ensure in the global IT supply chain, third-party software and hardware in manufacturing and support services is secure and free of counterfeit components or malware. O-TTPS is an effort to find ways to deter counterfeiting of IT products and also prevent “tainting” that might include deliberate malware or misconfigurations aimed at tampering with hardware and software. A formal conformance and certification process to certify Trusted Technology Providers will be announced by year-end.”]