COVID-19 impact: Don’t panic.
COVID-19, TrustCB and you With the spread of COVID-19 worldwide and the subsequent reductions in travel and in person meetings, we'll all be going more home-office based for a while. Now, TrustCB was already operating from the home-offices of the individual certifiers, with the secret information only stored on always-offline systems. So in a way we have been ready for this contingency for the last ±10 years under NSCIB and now all the other schemes. Or less lightly: this has no significant impact on our capacity and capabilities. The biggest gap for us certifiers is the evaluation meetings [...]
IoT Evaluation and Certification
Half a year ago TrustCB took the responsibility of the certification of a large chunk of the global ticketing starting with operating the MIFARE v3.0 schema. Now TrustCB has co-built, and is now operating, the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP). SESIP is the first building block to solve the IoT security evaluation problem: how to address so many different types of products, with each their own requirements? The problem is not how to express the requirements such varied range of products: we have had the Common Criteria (CC) for decades and this has worked very well to [...]
Launching the new TrustCB website
A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that this the renewed website of TrustCB. Our website continues to have the places for the formal communications under the scheme specific sections. What is new, is that we’ve added functionality for this blog you are now reading. I hope and expect that by sharing our thoughts here in a more informal way, we can facilitate better understanding and grow trust. After all, in relationships trust grows when you understand the other better and can predict their behaviour better. Especially if their behaviour is in line with what they promise, [...]