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European Hardware Safety Certification (EHSC) - Ideas - Digital transformation - Conference on the Future of Europe
futureu.europa.euOur technology is going smaller every day and our connected devices are becoming more and more complex. The problem is that none of our states seems to be able to guarantee one of theses modern devices to be safe for the consumer at all software, firmware and hardware (SFH) levels. And if only one of these layers is unchecked in only one of the network devices; then cyberdefense is gone in favour of the cybersecurity soup that we even barely study at the university. The risk is real for the consumer, so the urgency is for our governments. The problem is that it is now near impossible to guarantee an imported device; where the guarantee would assume perfect safety policies at each step of the manufacturing of the device, from all its strategic components supply chains up to sources codes contents and their signing servers. None in Asia or in America would accept a such European interferences, hence; the solution is the EHSC for made in Europe devices. The Union will have to create an organisation in charge of: - Proposing SFH laws and bans - Writing SFH rules for the EHSC - Safety analysis of every step of connected device manufacturing, including the transport and the manufacturing of all its strategic components; - Safety analysis of every bit of firmware/software source code, updates and applications to ensure appliance with the law and EHSC - State-of-the-art formation of inspectors and actors - EU R&D coordination to avoid redundancy of labs and fabs
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