This white paper outlines risks involved in several implementations of external non volatile storage for integrated secure functions in larger Systems on Chip (SoC). The external storage function must include in SoC evaluation and should have a certification level that matches or exceeds the claimed...
Eurosmart wished to make comments on the PwC Impact Study Analysis, which is part of the Cybersecurity Package. This study contains erroneous statements that Eurosmart would like to point out. Please download the document for more details. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.eurosmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Eurosmart-Comments-on-PwC-Study.pdf" title="Eurosmart Comments on PwC Study"]...
This white paper deals with current practices used in high level security evaluation methodology concerning vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and attack rating. It is compared to the trend in Common Criteria to use push-button testing usually applied in low level security evaluation methodology. It does not...
On the 17th of April, The European Commission tabled a proposal for a regulation to improve the security features of EU citizens’ identity cards and residence cards with the aim at curbing document fraud. Eurosmart and its members are fully committed in achieving the highest level...
By Sylvain CARRIOU, Mourad FAHER, Alban FERAUD and Christine HENNEBERT The digital world is now hyperconnected and it is gradually changing daily life of the European Citizens and consumers. This transformation of our society imposes to revise also our legal framework to make sure that the European...
In recent months, customers of the smart card industry have raised the question, whether smart cards and smart card based products (e.g. SIM cards, payment cards, electronic passports, electronic ID cards, health insurance cards) would fall under the scope of the WEEE Directives. The industry...
Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU impacts the way in which the RFID products are placed on the European market. Eurosmart issued on 6th November a position paper to present its understanding of the Directive. Besides, in order to clarify the scope of the directive, Eurosmart...
Back in November 2009, Eurosmart published a white paper on the Smart M2M module. At that time, the association was anticipating a massive deployment of connected devices in several sectors of the industry, and claimed that our industry had the technologies to solve the security...
Eurosmart, SPA and SIMalliance joint Press Release points out that used smart cards are not to be considered Electrical and Electronic Waste, and that treating smart cards as Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) would cause serious damages. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.eurosmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/14-01-02_Eurosmart-SIMalliance-SPA_Position20on20WEEE20Directives1.pdf" title=""]...
Registered and Certified by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) under the reference BSI-CC-PP-0084-2014. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.eurosmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pp0084b_pdf1.pdf" title="pp0084b_pdf"]...
