Cybersecurity supply chain risk management is integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management, risk assessment, and improvement processes.
Also written as GV-SC-03, GV.SC-3, CSF 2.0 GV.SC-03, NIST CSF GV.SC.
GV.SC-03 is one of 31 subcategories in the Govern (GV) function, under the Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management category (GV.SC). The Core states: “Cybersecurity supply chain risk management is integrated into cybersecurity and enterprise risk management, risk assessment, and improvement processes.” Govern is the function CSF 2.0 added, and it is the one most organisations score lowest on: the outcome is not a tool you deploy but a decision someone with authority has to make, record, and revisit.
To demonstrate this outcome in an assessment or audit, gather artefacts such as:
GV.SC-03 has no direct one-to-one ISO 27001:2022 Annex A equivalent — it is a governance or process outcome that ISO 27001 addresses at the management-system level (Clauses 4–10) rather than through a specific Annex A control. Treat it as its own requirement in your CSF profile.
No. CSF 2.0 is a voluntary framework of outcomes rather than a set of requirements, and there is no certification against it. GV.SC-03 becomes binding only when something else makes it so — a contract, a regulator that references CSF, or your own Target Profile. That is the practical difference between CSF and an auditable standard like ISO 27001 or SOC 2.
Through profiles rather than pass/fail testing. You record how fully the outcome is achieved today in a Current Profile, state where it needs to be in a Target Profile, and the gap between them becomes your action plan. Implementation Tiers (Partial, Risk Informed, Repeatable, Adaptive) describe how rigorous your governance around the outcome is, not whether you have met it.
Govern outcomes sit with leadership rather than with the security team — executives, risk owners, and in many organisations the board. If GV.SC-03 has no named owner outside IT, that is usually the finding, because CSF 2.0 introduced Govern precisely to make cybersecurity a management-level accountability.