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May 2020 Newsletter

Letter from GlobalPlatform’s Executive Director

Last month GlobalPlatform announced its support of the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology. This represents another exciting step for the organization and one that will bring consistency and trust to the IoT device security certification process, reducing complexity, costs and time to market for IoT stakeholders. If you missed our SESIP webinar, you can watch the video on-demand here.

We are grateful to those who were able to join us remotely for our Spring Meetings last month. As a reminder, we hope you will be able to join us for our Technical Meetings, which will be held virtually from June 17 – July 2. You can access the schedule on the member website here.

As the world battles the ongoing effects of COVID-19, our thoughts go to our colleagues, members, family and friends. While GlobalPlatform is lucky to be in a position of having always operated remotely, we understand that this is not the case for many of our members and we are grateful for the continued dedication that our membership has shown in these trying times.

Technical Meeting week to take place virtually

As you may have anticipated, GlobalPlatform members will not be gathering face-to-face in Bucharest, Romania for our annual Technical Week of meetings. The Board of Directors took the decision to schedule all meetings as virtual gatherings in light of COVID-19.  The Secretariat has worked closely with committee Chairs to arrange a schedule of meetings that will accommodate most time zones and reduce overlap.  Virtual meetings are scheduled from Wednesday, 17 June through Thursday, 2 July.

Visit the Global Calendar and register to attend here

GlobalPlatform announces support for SESIP

As the IoT expands to meet the needs of consumers and businesses, so to do the security challenges faced by device makers. In response to this, GlobalPlatform has announced its support of the SESIP methodology.

SESIP provides a standardized approach for evaluating the security needs of connected products to ensure that they meet the specific compliance, security, privacy and scalability challenges of the evolving IoT ecosystem.

Learn about SESIP

SESIP featured in IoT Now

The announcement of GlobalPlatform’s support of SESIP was featured in IoT Now.

With an estimated 75.44 billion IoT products expected to be in the marketplace by 2025, SESIP addresses the scale and complexity of the ecosystem by providing an optimized approach to security evaluation.

Read the article here

GlobalPlatform continues to operate as usual

While COVID-19 may have disrupted our way of life, we would like to assure members that GlobalPlatform has not been deterred in its mission to secure digital devices and services and continues to operate as usual.

We are fortunate that our organization has always worked remotely so our work will continue uninterrupted during this period.

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FIME blog: Host Card Emulation

FIME Product and Services Manager, Christian Damour, explores the challenges of Host Card Emulation (HCE) based mobile payments in this blog.

With security a concern, Christian discusses eight security technologies that can be layered to protect HCE apps from hackers.

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Technical Documents

New Document Releases

This update of the amendment introduces new implementation options S8 and S16, where the S8 mode corresponds to the legacy SCP03 protocol and S16 mode introduces stronger cryptographic strength with 16-byte challenges and cryptograms and 16-byte (non-truncated) C-MAC and R-MAC.

This document is now available for public and member download.

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Specifications Under Review

This document describes governance rules for SESIP. This will facilitate cooperation between certification bodies and laboratories, assist in the exchange of information and experience, and in the harmonization of standards and procedures within the GlobalPlatform SESIP ecosystem.

This document has been made available to solicit comments from the GlobalPlatform membership. Please share comments by Friday, 8 May 2020.

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A minor version release of the GPD Internal Core API, with additions and bug fixes applied and showing all non-trivial changes since v1.2.1

This document has been made available to solicit comments from the GlobalPlatform membership. Please share comments by Monday, 11 May 2020.

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A minor version release of the TMF ASN.1 Profile, with additions and bug fixes applied including an added update TA and Fetch Data, added Fetch Object and added Get TA definition.

This has been made available to solicit public comments. Please provide your comments to the specification by completing the comment form by Monday, 15 June 2020.

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Speaking Engagements

Did you miss our SESIP webinar?

In this webinar, our Technical Director, Gil Bernabeu is joined by GlobalPlatform members Carlos Serratos (Brightsight) and Eve Atallah (NXP). Together, they explain how SESIP provides a standardized methodology for ensuring connected products meet the specific compliance, security, privacy and scalability challenges of an ever-evolving ecosystem.

Watch the video

IoT World

GlobalPlatform is closely monitoring the COVID19 situation and we will keep members up to date on further details of our participation at this event.

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International Cryptographic Module Conference

GlobalPlatform is closely monitoring the COVID19 situation and we will keep members up to date on further details of our participation at this event.

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Membership Offers

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GlobalPlatform members will receive a 20% discount on registration.

GlobalPlatform members will receive a 10% discount on registration.

GlobalPlatform members will receive a 20% discount on registration.

GlobalPlatform members will receive a 20% discount on registration.

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