Understanding security vulnerabilities and where things could go wrong by examining how companies work together proves critical in any successful venture. The challenge becomes to create a unified agreement between business partners, keeping in mind each company's priorities and security concerns.
This rings true whether talking about joint-force expeditionary logistics, or multinational shipper/manufacturers transporting goods throughout the global commercial supply chain. It is one thing to create the technology, but very different when creating a physical network with many types of devices, from wireless to satellite, to RFID readers, to the dynamics of the actual consignments and items in motion, spread across several continents.
(You will find the link to Part I at the end of the article.)
