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GlobalPlatform News – Spring Meetings, our Digital Identity Seminar, and the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference

Letter from GlobalPlatform’s Executive Director

The countdown is on for our 2024 Spring Meetings. Register now to join us in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from March 25-28. In addition to our regular committee and task force meetings, I wanted to highlight:

  • Our Security Task Force (March 26th) will focus on PQC and SBOM and count with a number of guest speakers that will give perspectives from the US Government (NIST, NIAP and DHS), China, Japan and Automotive.
  • Don’t forget you can also register to attend the SESIP Workshop, on March 26. We are inviting US Government and vertical associations to discuss SESIP adoption.
  • On March 27th we will host our Digital Identity Wallet Seminar, which will gather industry leaders to discuss the importance of high security and certification for identity wallets in North America. I am pleased to announce that among these experts will be Mike McCaskill, Director of Identity Management at The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) who will deliver a keynote presentation on “Mobile Drivers Licenses in the US and David Zeuthen who will present Google’s perspective on identity.” Read more and register below.

Our TechTalk webinar series continues this month with a third session on Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), which we will share more details on soon. If you are interested in a specific topic or want to speak in one of our next sessions, you can email our secretariat at secretariat@globalplatform.org

A reminder that we are attending the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference this month. Sponsored by GlobalPlatform, the event will help prepare the device security ecosystem for a new era of cybersecurity regulation. Our Security Task Force Chair, Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze, and SESIP Ecosystem Adoption Working Group Chair, Carlos Serratos are both speaking at the event.

Be sure to redeem your GlobalPlatform member discount when registering for the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference event. This document contains event discount codes available for members, including a number of free first-come, first-serve passes for this year’s Hannover Messe, taking place April 22-26. Learn how to redeem below.

Don’t Miss Out on our Digital Identity Seminar

Join GlobalPlatform’s Digital Identity Seminar in Las Vegas on March 27. The seminar will bring together experts from Government and industry to share perspectives and key learnings for Digital Identity and eID Wallet deployments in North America. One such expert is Mike McCaskill (AAMVA) who will deliver a keynote on mobile driver’s licences in the US.

The event will take a deep dive into specific industry use cases, including payments, financial services and automotive, demonstrating the different ways of achieving a high level of security using secure elements. Attendees will also learn how the certification of eID solutions can be streamlined thanks to the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology.

Thank you to our seminar sponsor Thales. If you are interested in becoming a seminar sponsor, please contact me: ana.lattibeaudiere@globalplatform.org

Register now

Register for our Spring Meetings

There is still time to register for our annual Spring Meetings. All members are invited to join us in Las Vegas from March 25-28 for what promises to be four days of insightful and informative discussion. We will be discussing key challenges and opportunities in device security, and how our key initiatives including automotive, SAM, our Trusted Environments & Services (TES) workflow can help advance the ecosystem.

Collocated with the Spring Meetings, we’re hosting our invitation-only SESIP Workshop on March 26. This session is dedicated to briefing US Governmental organizations and different scheme owners to accelerate the adoption of SESIP across the device ecosystem. Members can register their interest here.

To sponsor this workshop, please reach out to us: ana.lattibeaudiere@globalplatform.org

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Progress on Automotive Activities

Our work with SAE and AUTOSAR has been progressing significantly over the past few months. We have completed mapping of GlobalPlatform’s specifications to SAE’s J3101 and we are assessing the next steps in aligning with AUTOSAR’s security working group.

During the Spring Members Meeting in Las Vegas, the Automotive Task Force will be meeting to explore new potential work areas including but not limited to autonomous vehicles, SBOM, insurance risk assessment of cybersecurity, in-car payments, identification, and biometrics and RISCV developments. Automotive priorities will also be actively discussed in the SE and TES Technical Committee meetings. Plan to attend to highlight your organizational priorities.

Learn more and register here

Hear from Industry Experts in our GlobalPlatform TechTalks

The next in our series of GlobalPlatform TechTalks is taking place on March 22 at 9:30 ET / 15:30 CET. This third instalment will continue our focus on the themes of the first two sessions, giving event more insight into Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC).

More details on the specific topics that this session will explore as well as details of how to attend will be shared soon. If you have a topic that you’d like to discuss, we invite members to submit their proposals for future TechTalks by contacting: secretariat@globalplatform.org

Contact us to find out more

GlobalPlatform Board of Directors for 2024

GlobalPlatform has announced its Board of Directors for fiscal year 2024, and the key initiatives it is driving to develop confidence and inspire trust in secure technologies and certifications.

The five open board seats have been officially determined, and the following Full Members will serve a two-year term on the Board:

  • Rob Coombs, Arm
  • Stephanie EL RHOMRI, Fime
  • Sebastian Hans, Oracle
  • Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze, STMicroelectronics
  • Guillaume Phan, Thales

Together, the GlobalPlatform Board is prioritizing initiatives across a broader range of trusted isolation platforms and services, the simplification of IoT security evaluation and sector-specific initiatives including digital identity and automotive.

Find out more

SIDI Hub Announces Roadmap for 2024

GlobalPlatform has joined forces with 16 of the major open-standard organizations active in digital identity to be a founding member of the Sustainable and Interoperable Digital Identity (SIDI) Hub. This initiative is dedicated to driving cross-border interoperability at scale in the digital identity space.

The key workstreams for 2024 are:

  • Identifying use cases for cross-border interoperability that serve as baseline for all workstreams.
  • Defining minimum interoperability requirements for priority use cases.
  • Mapping trust frameworks across jurisdictions.

Defining metrics of success.

Learn more

SESIP Training

SESIP provides a common and optimized approach for evaluating the security of components and platforms from connected products looking to meet the specific compliance, security, privacy, and scalability challenges of the evolving IoT ecosystem.

Our dedicated training, led by Alberto Fuentes from Digital Cubes, will give participants an understanding of the specific compliance, security, privacy, and scalability challenges of the evolving IoT ecosystem. It will also discuss how adopting the SESIP methodology can help achieve compliance with an improved time to market. Stay tuned for more details on how to register.

Register your interest
Technical Documents

New Document Releases

This minor update to the API introduces one new CDCVM event and one new type of CDCVM callback request, and corresponds to GlobalPlatform Card Specification Amendment J: Broker Interface v1.1.

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Specifications Under Review

This version includes corrections and clarifications, adds support for SHA 256 to derive DeviceAppIDs from the certificate of the device Application Provider (deprecated SHA 1), and adds support for SHA 256 in ARF.

This has been made available for member review. Please provide your comments by completing the comment form by March 29, 2024, or emailing SE-Access-Control-review@globalplatform.org

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This document defines an extension of the GlobalPlatform Card Specification to facilitate the update of the Operating System in a Secure Element of government ID physical documents.

This has been made available for member review. Please provide your comments by completing the comment form by April 14, 2024, or emailing Extn-Upd-Govt-ID-Docs-review@globalplatform.org

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Pre-release version of SESIP Profile for WPC Qi Secure Storage Subsystem is now available to download from the GlobalPlatform public review page.

This has been made available for member review. Please provide your comments by completing the comment form by April 14, 2024, or emailing SESIP-Profile-WPC-review@globalplatform.org

Download here

Pre-release version of SESIP Profile for Edge Compute Node is now available to download from the GlobalPlatform public review page.

This has been made available for member review. Please provide your comments by completing the comment form by April 14, 2024, or emailing SESIP-Profile-ECN-review@globalplatform.org

Download here
Speaking Engagements

Join GlobalPlatform at the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference

GlobalPlatform will speak at the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference as our SESIP Ecosystem Adoption Working Group Chair, Carlos Serratos, delivers his session “EN 17927: what if CRA was using composition?” as part of the Standards and Certification track. Join him at 13:50 CET on March 12.

Register to attend

Join GlobalPlatform at the EU Cybersecurity Act Conference

Also at the EUCA conference, Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze, GlobalPlatform Security Task Force Chair, is speaking on Wednesday, March 13 at 11:30 CET. Join him for the presentation “IoT Security – How SESIP Is Supporting Industries to Prepare for Incoming EU Legislation” to learn how SESIP is facilitating alignment with EU regulations.

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Hear GlobalPlatform speak at the European Identity and Cloud Conference

Chair of the GlobalPlatform eID Wallet Task Force, Jean Daniel Aussel, is speaking at this year’s European Identity and Cloud Conference in Berlin. Join him on Friday June 7 at 11:50 CET for his presentation “Meeting the Challenges of Securing the EUDI Wallet with a High Level of Assurance”.

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