This document gives guidelines for assessing product security-related threats, risks and countermeasures by developing a suitable protection plan, supporting its implementation and monitoring its effectiveness after implementation.

This includes consideration of impacts and modifications to, for example, product life cycle, supply chain, manufacturing, data management, brand perception and costs so as to adapt the protection plan accordingly.

This document is applicable to all types and sizes of organizations that want to ensure authenticity and integrity in order to support the trustworthiness of products, including documents, data and services related to products.

This document supports organizations setting up a process to assess risks and to select and combine individual measures for developing a product protection plan.