Cyber physical passport to help secure supply chains including COVID-19 vaccine

New cyber physical passport to help secure supply chains including COVID-19 vaccine

Posted on 11 Jan 2021 by Karen Queen

Siemens and eight partners are to sign a joint charter to improve cyber security - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

A new US public-private partnership is introducing a cyber physical passport to help better protect manufacturing supply chains and it could play an important role in securing the COVID-19 vaccine 'cold chain' later this year.

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Cold chain definition: The system for distributing products at low temperatures is called the ‘cold chain’. For the COVID-19 vaccine, an unbroken cold chain has to be maintained from the time the vaccine is produced at Pfizer’s manufacturing facilities in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Puurs, Belgium, right through to when it is thawed to be administered to…