Why Join GlobalPlatform?
GlobalPlatform members work to empower stakeholders across industries with technologies and certifications for trusted digital services and devices that address their business, security, regulatory and data protection needs. Join us to experience these benefits first-hand and shape the future of secure, innovative solutions.
Business benefits
- Ownership: drive forward technical priorities that matter to your business.
- Collaboration: network with industry experts and technology market leaders.
- Visibility: add value to the community alongside some of the biggest names in tech.
- Compliance: meet cybersecurity, regulatory and data protection mandates to open up new opportunities and markets.
- Efficiency: save time and money by securing digital services and devices with standardized technologies.
- Innovation: focus developers on differentiation. GlobalPlatform’s standardized technologies give you the secure foundation for your digital services and devices.
- Discounts: get discounted access to industry events.
Technology benefits
- Get ahead: gain advanced access to specifications, frameworks, testing suites and configurations.
- Leadership: contribute to our technical committees and working groups to define industry-shaping security standards.
- Strategy: participate in our market-based and regionally-focused task forces to align your global priorities.
- Assurance: build trust in your products with discounted functional and security certification.
- Cybersecurity: answer approximately 85% of global cybersecurity requirements and regulations with GlobalPlatform technologies.
- Education: gain deep insights by working alongside industry leaders and accessing discounted technical training from our experts.
- Full members take an active role in the leadership of GlobalPlatform and development of our specifications. Full members have weighted voting privileges at both committee and board level.
- Key benefits include:
- Nominate for a GlobalPlatform Board and / or Executive Committee seat.
- Chair a Technical Committees and / or Task Force.
- Three company votes for Board of Directors elections.
- Opportunity to become a GlobalPlatform accredited SE or TEE certification lab / test tool provider.
- Ability to participate in all three Technical Committees and their associated Working Groups.
- Plus – all benefits of Participating and Observer levels.
- This membership level is open to application developers, digital service providers, silicon vendors, device manufacturers, cloud platform providers, testing / evaluation labs and certification bodies of all sizes and across all industries.
- Participating members focus their contributions on a specific area of GlobalPlatform’s work and have weighted voting privileges.
- Key benefits include:
- One company vote for Board of Directors elections.
- Opportunity to become a GlobalPlatform accredited SE or TEE certification lab / test tool provider.
- Ability to participate in one Technical Committee and its associated Working Groups.
- Plus – all benefits of Observer level.
- This membership level is open to application developers, digital service providers, silicon vendors, device manufacturers, cloud platform providers, testing / evaluation labs and certification bodies of all sizes and across all industries.
- Observer members can participate in all market-based and regionally-focused task forces. They ‘observe’ progress of the Technical Committees as activity progresses, and can input into documents as they become available for early review on the member-only website.
- This membership level is open to application developers, digital service providers, silicon vendors, device manufacturers, cloud platform providers, testing / evaluation labs and certification bodies of all sizes and across all industries.
- This level of membership applies to not-for-profit organizations in the public sector, such as government entities (federal, state or provincial), educational institutes, regulators and legal entities pursuant to the applicable law of the organization.
- This level of membership applies to small companies who derive their revenues strictly from consulting services, not through product or solution sales or development. The number of company employees must not exceed five, while the number of secure component technology experts must not exceed three.
How to Join
It’s easy to apply to become a GlobalPlatform member. Simply download and read our legal bylaws and IPR policy, and then complete and return our membership agreement via email to secretariat@globalplatform.org.
If you have any questions, please take a look at our FAQ document below. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for or would like to discuss any aspect of our membership further please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
- Membership Agreement
- Membership Level Descriptions
- IPR Policy
- IPR FAQs
- Legal Bylaws
- Complaint & Appeals Process
Please note that new members joining after October 31 within the current fiscal year will pay prorated fees based on the month that a signed membership agreement is received by GlobalPlatform.
For existing members, all GlobalPlatform process and policy documents are available on our exclusive member-only site in resource documents. These documents are also available on-request to non-members or other interested parties.
Member Testimonials
“Mobile and payment security is the core of our business and we have become globally recognized for our security expertise regarding Java Card™ and GlobalPlatform technology. GlobalPlatform has taken the initiative to propose an architecture that will enable mobile payment to emerge in a sound and cost-effective manner, a drive that we fully support. As a member of the association we are now working with key industry associations to play a part in this effort which will make mobile payment solutions secure and trustworthy by offering the required test methodology and tools.”
- Marc Witteman, CTO, Riscure
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