GlobalPlatform News – OSIA qualification and outlook for 2023

Letter from GlobalPlatform’s Executive Director

Happy New Year, for those of you that celebrated! I hope you had a wonderful time marking the occasion with your friends and family.

The past year saw many exciting developments for our organization. We kicked off the GlobalPlatform SESIP Seminar series with events in the United States, Spain and Taiwan, bringing together experts to discuss how the methodology addresses the needs of the IoT ecosystem. We launched two new Task Forces – Automotive and eID Wallet – and held our first Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum (CVF), where we are convening the ecosystem to advance the Task Force objectives. We also held our first Standardization Executives Roundtable with our Full Members to gather direction and feedback for GlobalPlatform’s technology roadmap.

Looking ahead to 2023, we will continue working to create collaborative and open ecosystems that set the standard for secure digital services and devices. Read below about how our work with OSIA is bringing interoperability to the digital identity systems market, the latest advancements in our automotive work, what’s next for SESIP and how we are preparing for the migration to post-quantum cryptography.

We also have an exciting calendar of events for both members and non-members. I am looking forward to seeing you during our Spring member meetings (week of March 27th) in San Diego. A special note to our GP Women, our first get together will take place on Thursday March 30th with a keynote speaker that will soon be announced.

I would also like to note that our Secure Device Forum 2023 event organized by the Japan Task Force takes place virtually on February 8th with a great line up of speakers including AWS, Microsoft and GSMA.

GlobalPlatform Events in 2023

GlobalPlatform events are an opportunity for our members to network with other industry experts and technology market leaders, drive forward technical priorities that matter to your business and contribute to the development of specifications and technical definitions that are guiding the future of cybersecurity.

We already have an exciting program of events for this coming year:

  • Secure Device Forum 2023 (Feb 8: Virtual)
  • Spring Meetings (March 27-30: San Diego, USA)
  • eID Wallet Seminar (May 25: Brussels)
  • Technical Week (June 12-15, location TBC)
  • CVF USA (June, Detroit), CVF Japan (September, Tokyo) and CVF China (to be scheduled)
  • Fall Meetings (November 6-10: Athens, Greece)

We look forward to announcing further events throughout the year which will be published on the Global Calendar in Workspace.

View our events calendar

Automotive cybersecurity: what are the latest threats and regulations car manufacturers should be aware of?

GlobalPlatform Automotive Lead Francesca Forestieri recently delivered a presentation as part of AutoTech: Europe.

Now available on demand, watch the presentation to learn about the latest cybersecurity threats in the automotive ecosystem, an overview of recent stringent regulations and how GlobalPlatform technologies are helping address specific automotive regulatory requirements. Francesca also explores how GlobalPlatform solutions for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology are helping drive activity across automotive use cases.

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The OSIA global qualification program

GlobalPlatform is the qualification authority of the OSIA global qualification program. This has been launched by the Security Identity Alliance to bring interoperability to the identity systems market and ensure digital IDs can be accepted with confidence.

Vendors seeking to achieve OSIA Qualified status can assess their products and solutions against the OSIA test plan to determine if they are OSIA compliant. GlobalPlatform acts as the qualification authority by maintaining a list of all vendors and products that qualify.

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SESIP: The Benefits of IoT Security Evaluation Reuse

How does GlobalPlatform’s Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology address the scale and complexity of security evaluation in the IoT ecosystem?

Writing for Embedded.com, GlobalPlatform Technical Director, Gil Bernabeu, explores the benefits that the methodology is bringing to the ecosystem. Read the article to learn about challenges being faced by both certification bodies and testing laboratories in delivering efficient, cost effective and rigorous evaluations of devices. Gil also explains how SESIP addresses these issues by mapping to other standards, including ETSI, ISO/IEC and NIST, to enable evaluations across a broad range of security frameworks and vertical regulations.

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Watch on-demand: GlobalPlatform SESIP Seminar Barcelona

The full recording of our SESIP Seminar in Barcelona is now available on demand. Experts joined us to discuss how the SESIP methodology reduces complexity and cost from security certification processes for stakeholders throughout the IoT ecosystem.

Watch keynote presentations and panel discussions from security specialists representing key organizations including ARM / PSA Certified, Amazon Web Services, CEN/CENELEC, ETSI, ECSO, Eurosmart, Microsoft, STMicroelectronics, SGS Brightsight, Winbond, and many more.

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Speaking Engagements

Hear GlobalPlatform speak at Embedded World

GlobalPlatform Technical Director, Gil Bernabeu, is speaking at this year’s Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Germany. Join him on March 16 for his presentation “How SESIP can be used to keep pace with evolving IoT cybersecurity” to learn how the methodology is addressing security concerns across the IoT.

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The importance of mapping SESIP to security standards

Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze of STMicroelectronics explains how the SESIP methodology can enhance security standards and facilitate compliance in a way that is cost-effective, swift, and simple to understand.

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How is SESIP optimizing security certification for IoT developers?

Mariela Pavlova, Senior Security Certification Expert at GlobalPlatform member Infineon Technologies, explains how the SESIP methodology is helping optimize security for IoT developers.

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Membership Offers

Visit the member website to view discount codes for each event


GlobalPlatform members will receive a 50% discount on full conference passes.

GlobalPlatform members will receive a 100% discount on Expo Passes.

GlobalPlatform members will receive a 50% discount on full conference passes.

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