Annual Report 2024

Building the Foundation of Digital Security for 25 years

This year, GlobalPlatform celebrates its 25 year-anniversary. For a quarter of a century, we have been at the forefront of standardizing secure digital services, ensuring that billions of devices worldwide can communicate securely and reliably.

This was another pivotal year in the history of GlobalPlatform as we accelerated activity into new markets and developed specifications to meet the needs and requirements of evolving technologies.

Key achievements this year:

• The ratification of SESIP (Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms) as a European Standard (EN 17927) served as a catalyst for widespread adoption. To support this growing adoption, GlobalPlatform launched comprehensive SESIP Training courses for product vendors, regulators, and scheme owners – helping to grow understanding of the SESIP methodology and its applicability. And this year, we published the mapping of SESIP security requirements to: NIST 8425, UNECE WP.29, RED prEN 18031 and ISO/SAE 21434.
• The EU has given the green light to advance the introduction of the cross-border European Digital Wallet (EUDI). GlobalPlatform has introduced a range of new solutions to help both EU Member States and smartphone vendors implement the scheme based on GlobalPlatform secure technologies. In collaboration with the GSMA and ENISA, we developed the Secure Application for Mobile (SAM) model for secure elements, and we are driving the development of the Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) specification with security evaluation guidelines for the European Cybersecurity Scheme on Common Criteria (EUCC).
• We made great strides aligning GlobalPlatform technologies with automotive use cases, including collaborating with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to harmonize with SAE’s J3101 standard – laying the foundation for secure software-defined vehicles.
• In May, we announced the release of a new standardized Secure Channel Protocol for secure elements. This enabled remote application and file management on constrained IoT devices and low-power networks – helping to overcome network and bandwidth limitations of devices based on lower power standards such as NB-IoT.
• We entered into liaison agreements with the CENELEC TC 47X, FiRa Consortium and Wireless Power Consortium providing further evidence of the expanding relevance of GlobalPlatform technology.

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