Understanding security vulnerabilities and where things could go wrong by examining how companies work together proves critical in any successful venture. The challenge becomes to create a unified agreement between business partners, keeping in mind each company's priorities and security concerns.
This rings true whether talking about joint-force expeditionary logistics, or multinational shipper/manufacturers transporting goods throughout the global commercial supply chain. It is one thing to create the technology, but very different when creating a physical network with many types of devices, from wireless to satellite, to RFID readers, to the dynamics of the actual consignments and items in motion, spread across several continents.
