Download Supply Chain Component Inventory
The Download Supply Chain Component Inventory is a lightweight tool designed to help teams of any size understand, document, and manage all the moving parts involved in delivering downloadable files—whether software or non-software—to customers. Enumerating components, responsibilities, and risks helps illuminate hidden vulnerabilities, improve user experience, ensure compliance, and guide informed decision-making for designing, implementing, auditing, and optimizing a secure and reliable download supply chain.
Author
Download Supply Chain Component Inventory is the work of Jacob Moorman, whose independent research and designs are available at zerotrack.net.
License
Download Supply Chain Component Inventory © 2024 by Jacob Moorman is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Model
Technical Attributes
- Inclusive Scoping: Works equally well for traditional software projects, non-software assets, and organizations of any size, including small teams and open-source volunteers.
- Holistic and Ecosystem-Oriented: Provides a comprehensive framework that encompasses product specifications, supports, user responsibilities, environments, human factors, and the extended product ecosystem—including adversarial and disinformation risks.
- Visual Model with 156 Components: Offers a structured diagram spanning 12 groups, enabling the overlay of information and the visualization of risks, making it easier to identify gaps and understand complex relationships.
- Incremental Risk Management: Encourages iterative refinement, documentation, and continuous improvement, allowing teams to identify, measure, and address risks over time rather than all at once.
- Human-Centric Considerations: Recognizes people (end-users, producers, overseers, volunteers) as critical risk points and emphasizes usability, training, trust, and communication to reduce vulnerabilities.
- Technology-Agnostic Flexibility: Adaptable to any technical environment or delivery method, supporting diverse scenarios such as different file formats, infrastructure configurations, or compliance regimes.
- Measurement and Visualization: Supports data-driven insights, enabling teams to overlay qualitative and quantitative metrics, track changes visually, and integrate with other analytic techniques and frameworks.
The Paper
Supporting Materials
Release History
- Original release: 2024-10-31
- Second release: 2024-11-07
Additional content is available at: zerotrack.net
