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High-Integrity Supply Chain Verification

Verification frameworks for quantum-safe supply chain integrity in defence procurement and logistics.

Full day (6 hours)
Certificate on completion
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Course Overview

For defence procurement and supply chain security leads. Covers quantum-enhanced supply chain authentication using PUFs, quantum tokens, PQC signing, tamper detection, and end-to-end verification frameworks for defence hardware and firmware integrity.

Curriculum

Course content is structured into sessions below. Each session is configurable to your organisation's environment, threat model, and objectives.

# Session Topics
1 Supply Chain Threat Landscape for Defence Documented attacks and emerging quantum-era risks
  • Counterfeit components, firmware manipulation, and hardware interdiction: case studies from defence supply chains
  • How quantum computing threatens RSA/ECDSA-based firmware signing and certificate chains
  • CNSA 2.0 implications for supply chain cryptographic infrastructure
2 Hardware Authentication Technologies PUFs, quantum tokens, and device fingerprinting
  • SRAM PUFs: exploiting manufacturing variation for unique device identification
  • Arbiter and optical PUFs: higher entropy sources and tamper-evident properties
  • Quantum token concepts: no-cloning theorem applied to physical provenance markers
  • Challenge-response protocols for PUF-based authentication in field conditions
Break
3 Cryptographic Integrity for Firmware and Software PQC signing and attestation chains
  • ML-DSA (FIPS 204) and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) for firmware signing: performance, signature size, and verification speed
  • Hybrid signature schemes during transition: maintaining backwards compatibility with legacy verifiers
  • Attestation chain design: from silicon manufacture through assembly, testing, shipping, and deployment
4 Interactive Demonstration End-to-end hardware verification pipeline
  • Facilitator-led walkthrough of a complete component verification workflow: PUF enrolment, attestation signing, transit monitoring, and deployment verification
  • Comparing classical versus PQC signature verification times and signature sizes in constrained environments
  • Identifying failure modes: what happens when a component fails PUF challenge-response or attestation chain validation
Break
5 Implementation Framework Building quantum-resilient supply chain verification
  • Integration with existing defence procurement standards (DEF STAN 00-056, DO-254, MIL-STD-883)
  • Vendor assessment: PUF providers (Intrinsic ID, Verayo), PQC libraries (liboqs, wolfSSL), and attestation platforms
  • Phased deployment: pilot programme design for critical component classes
6 Case Studies: Supply Chain Security Programmes Lessons from early adopters
  • US DoD CMMC and supply chain cryptographic requirements
  • European defence procurement: EDA and NATO AQAP supply chain integrity standards
7 Q&A and Implementation Planning

Designed and Delivered By

Training courses are designed and delivered by QSECDEF in collaboration with subject specialists. All instructors have direct experience in quantum technologies and security.

QD

Quantum Security Defence

Course design and delivery

QSECDEF brings expertise in post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing strategy, and defence-grade security assessment. Our membership spans 900+ organisations and 1,500+ professionals working at the intersection of quantum technologies and critical infrastructure security.

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