GlobalPlatform News – Updates from Athens, the SIDI Hub Initiative and SESIP training

Athens Fall Meetings Update

This month’s Fall Meetings in Athens, Greece proved to be an exciting and dynamic forum of debate within which we were able to advance many strategic and organizational priorities.

We’ll be communicating on each of these in more detail in due course, but some key highlights include:

• The formation of a new SESIP committee to bring together all SESIP related activities from across the organization under the banner of this unified group,
• The merger of our Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Trusted Platform Services (TPS) Committees to create the Trusted Environments & Services (TES) Committee,
• A new home for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) as it moves under the remit of the Security Task Force.

SESIP Training 

GlobalPlatform is enhancing its training program to support stakeholders adopting the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) methodology.

Leveraging the organization’s technical expertise on interoperability standards, this training course has been designed to improve industry knowledge of the SESIP methodology, security levels, key concepts including composition, and GlobalPlatform’s governance model.

Open to both members and non-members alike, this training will teach attendees what SESIP is, why it is important, its security functional requirements and more.

The training will be available in Q1 2024, email the secretariat now to receive information when available.

China Taks Force Meeting and the CVF Beijing

Automotive Initiative Updates

The month of November included a number of automotive initiative activities. At the Fall member meeting in Athens, the Automotive Task Force participated in meetings with SAE and AUTOSAR. As you may be aware, GlobalPlatform has created the mapping of compliance to J3101 (hardware security trust anchors) and SAE has decided to publish it in their next edition of J3101. We are also in discussions with the AUTOSAR Security Working Group and we will be expanding our discussions into the WG-UCM (Update & Configuration Management) and WG-AP-ST (System Tests).

Additionally, we held our final Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum event for 2023 in Hamburg, Germany and we welcomed participation from a number of automotive OEMs including General Motors, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Toyota. Over the next few weeks, we will be planning the schedule of Cybersecurity Vehicle Forum events in 2024.

As we wind down the year and move toward 2024, we invite you to join the Automotive Task Force to ensure that your organization’s priorities and requirements are included in GlobalPlatform’s automotive security specifications.