For some years now, cybersecurity in the industrial field has been taking on a particularly significant relevance. Industrial sectors have taken note of the seriousness of suffering cyber-attacks that could potentially stop or slow down their production, or expose sensitive information. This March, after an exhaustive audit by IECEE, we obtained accreditation to carry out assessments under the IECEE CB scheme, more specifically for the IEC 62443 4-1 and IEC 62443 4-2 standards, dedicated to assessing the cybersecurity of industrial components.
Collaborating with prestigious media in the cybersecurity sector is always a great satisfaction for us. That is why, when we were contacted by Revista SIC to write an article about CCCAB, the innovative tool we are developing for the Common Criteria validation process, we got down to work. In the last edition of Revista SIC you can find the article that we publish now in our blog.
As every year, we offer the CCStatistics for the previous year in its full version, once all data has been compiled and analysed. 2021 was the year with the highest number of Common Criteria certifications in history, with 411 certifications, surpassing the 400 milestone for the first time.
This year is quite exciting for us, because for the first time, our laboratory has evaluated the first product under the Common Criteria standard, which allows us to become an accredited laboratory for Common Criteria evaluations.
Cybersecurity in radio equipment and devices is one of the major milestones set by the European Commission for the coming years. Therefore, just a month ago, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 of 29 October 2021 was published on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment that will require certain cybersecurity requirement.At jtsec we are very proud to be part of the working group that will help to standardise the cybersecurity requirements to be applied in this Directive.
5G technology has been, and is considered by the European Commission, as a strategic and competitive opportunity.
In view of the imminent deployment of 5G technology in Europe in the coming years, the European Union included in the URWP the creation of a specific cybersecurity scheme for this technology. The objective of the creation of this new scheme is none other than to improve the 5G cybersecurity framework and to ensure that the deployment of 5G in the European Union is carried out in a secure manner.
