GlobalPlatform News – Takeaways from our Spring Meetings, our Digital Identity Seminar, and the SESIP Workshop

Thank you for attending our Digital ID Seminar

Our Digital ID Wallet Seminar took place last week in Las Vegas, USA. A packed agenda of expert speakers from government and industry gave attendees insight into the implementation of digital identity and mobile driver's license (mDL) solutions in North America. Sessions also explored the key considerations regarding interoperability and certification within the eID wallet ecosystem.

We would like to thank our seminar sponsor, Thales, for supporting the event as well as our speakers from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), Fime, Gataca, Google, HID, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Visa.

SESIP Workshop Wrap Up

Stakeholders from government, vertical associations, and the entire IoT and device security ecosystems gathered in Las Vegas, USA last week to discuss how the SESIP methodology is reducing complexity in security evaluation processes and how the concepts of composition and reuse are revolutionizing IoT certification.

Sponsored by Winbond, this event gave the opportunity for a free and open discussion with expert speakers from Connectivity Standards Alliance, Google, Riscure, National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NXP Semiconductors, SGS Brightsight, STMicroelectronics, Winbond, and more.

Automotive task force update from Las Vegas

Upcoming GlobalPlatform Events

Our calendar of events continues throughout 2024. More details will be shared in due course, but be sure to save the date for each of the below:

• The next TechTalk: April 16
  The next instalment in our TechTalks series takes place April 26 at 9:30 EST / 15:30 CET. More details will be shared on this soon.
• Standardization Executive Roundtable: May 15
  Full Members are invited to share their short and long-term priorities as we identify key trends and map out GlobalPlatform’s priorities moving forward.
• Our fifth TechTalk: May 31
  This upcoming TechTalk will be presented by Jeremy O'Donoghue (Qualcomm) on the topic of Isolation Technologies.
• Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum @ AutoTech: Detroit – June 4
  Join us in Detroit for the US version of the CSVF – attendees will get free access to the AutoTech: Detroit exhibition.
• Technical Week: June 24 to 28
  Our annual Technical Meetings are taking place in La Ciotat, France. These meetings will focus on our ongoing technical work, workplans, and the future direction of GlobalPlatform security technologies for digital services and devices.
• Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum events to be held in Japan and Germany, October and November 2024
  
• Fall Meetings: November 18 to 22
  The GlobalPlatform Fall Meetings will take place in Porto, Portugal, giving members another opportunity to discuss and define key priorities for the organization.

Introducing the GlobalPlatform TES Committee

You may have seen that GlobalPlatform has launched a new Trusted Environments & Services (TES) Committee.

The TES Committee is the result of a merger between GlobalPlatform’s Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Trusted Platform Services (TPS) Committees. Its mission is to define services that directly address vertical sector problems and use cases, helping them to enable robust security across a range of secure platforms.

The committee is chaired by Richard Hayton (Trustonic) with Jeremy O’Donoghue (Qualcomm) as Vice Chair. It inherits all existing work items and areas from the TEE and TPS Committees and is open to full and participating members.

Read Our Blog to Learn about The Evolution of Secure Isolation Platforms

Secure Elements (SEs) and TEEs are mature technologies, pivotal in the application processor space. Yet, in recent years, we have seen the rise of other secure isolation platforms that serve similar roles but with different trade-offs.

We also see how some sectors like automotive, payments and identity have requirements to use a combination of isolated environment technologies across their solutions, and need horizontal services that can be deployed across platforms.

Writing for our blog, Richard Hayton, Chair of GlobalPlatform’s TES Committee, explains what a secure isolation platform is, and how GlobalPlatform is supporting evolving data security and privacy needs.