GlobalPlatform News – Spring Meetings, SAE Engagement, Launching GP Women and more

We are pleased to announce the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors for fiscal year 2023. Stéphanie El Rhomri of Fime continues in her role as GlobalPlatform Chair, joined by Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze of STMicroelectronics who has been elected to the position of Vice Chair. Claus Dietze of Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security takes over from Olivier as GlobalPlatform Treasurer and Secretary.

I look forward to working alongside the Board over the next 12 months, as we drive new initiatives that are supporting stakeholders from across different industries to respond to emerging cybersecurity requirements.

GlobalPlatform’s Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum, which is open to non-members of the wider automotive value chain, continues to generate traction and input.

Our next meetings will be a remote update on March 31 and then in-person in June collocated with ESCAR USA in Detroit. We are looking forward to your participation!

In 2022, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the names of the candidate algorithms chosen to advance to the fourth round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization process.

Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze, our Vice Chair and Security Task Force Chair, explains how GlobalPlatform is actively engaging with our members, and with external security organizations, to ensure that security requirements from a broad range of use cases and market sectors are addressed for each phase of the migration to post-quantum cryptography.

With technology adoption showing no signs of slowing down – and consumer spending on smarter technology continuing to skyrocket – the need for greater efficiency that is both cost-effective and secure is clear. While a smarter future is an exciting prospect throughout the globe, the introduction of even more connected devices brings about a brand-new set of challenges.

In this article Technical Director Gil Bernabeu explores how the organization’s Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology provides a common and optimized approach to securing the IoT ecosystem.