Compliance · Supply chain integrity

ISO/IEC 20243 (O-TTPS) — trusted technology supply chain

Prove your hardware and software weren't tampered with on the way to the customer.

ISO/IEC 20243 — the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard — addresses two threats regulators and defense buyers care about: tainted products (maliciously modified) and counterfeit products. It applies across the whole lifecycle, from design to delivery.

Tainted

Threat one

Counterfeit

Threat two

Lifecycle

Scope

What O-TTPS addresses

Supply chain integrity for organizations that build or integrate technology products.

Tainted products

Preventing malicious modification anywhere in design, sourcing, build, or delivery — the software and hardware equivalent of a poisoned well.

Counterfeit products

Stopping fraudulent components from entering your product or your customers' environments through the parts you buy.

Whole lifecycle

Requirements span secure development, sourcing, build, fulfilment, sustainment, and disposal — not just the factory floor.

Who needs ISO 20243

Technology providers whose customers can't afford a compromised component.

  • Hardware manufacturers and integrators
  • Defense and government technology suppliers
  • Critical infrastructure equipment vendors
  • Component suppliers asked to prove chain-of-custody

How intSignal gets you there

We do the readiness, build and run the controls, and support you through the audit — we are not the auditor, and we keep that separation deliberate.

Supply chain mapping

We map your suppliers, components, and handoffs — you can't secure a chain you haven't drawn.

Secure development

We implement the secure engineering, code integrity, and build controls the standard expects.

Sourcing controls

We build supplier vetting, component authentication, and anti-counterfeit measures into procurement.

Chain of custody

We establish custody, tamper-evidence, and integrity verification through fulfilment.

Sustainment & disposal

We cover patching, updates, and secure disposal across the product's life.

Assessment readiness

We prepare the evidence for O-TTPS assessment and customer supply chain audits.

How the engagement runs

1

Map the chain

Inventory suppliers, components, and lifecycle handoffs.

2

Assess

Measure practices against O-TTPS requirements.

3

Implement

Close development, sourcing, and custody gaps.

4

Evidence

Document practices and verification results.

5

Assess & sustain

Support formal assessment and keep controls live.

Frequently asked questions

Who actually asks for ISO 20243?

Primarily defense, government, and critical infrastructure buyers, and large OEMs pushing integrity requirements down their supply chain. If you sell components or systems into those markets, it shows up in contracts.

How does this relate to SBOM requirements?

They're complementary. SBOM tells you what's in the software; O-TTPS covers the practices ensuring what's in it got there legitimately and wasn't tampered with. Buyers increasingly want both.

Does this apply to software-only companies?

Yes. The standard covers commercial off-the-shelf ICT products generally — tainted software through compromised build pipelines or dependencies is squarely in scope, and is the more common attack today.

Other frameworks we support

Most of the work transfers. Once controls are mapped and evidenced, a second framework costs a fraction of the first.

ISO 20243 for your environment

Tell us where you are and who’s asking for it — we’ll come back with scope, gaps, and a realistic timeline.