Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

This document specifies:

• logical data structures for a Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC);
• enrolment procedures; and
• usage of commands and data structures defined in other International Standards for BSoC.

This document does not define requirements for:

• commands and data structures that apply to devices external to a BSoC;
• commands and data structures that apply to logical interfaces inside a BSoC.

CEN/CLC/JTC 13/WG 9  -  Horizontal cybersecurity for products with digital elements: WG9 is responsible for the development of the horizontal standards in response to the European Cyber Resilience Act Standardisation Request M/606, items 1 - 15.WG 9 supports coordination and coherence between the vertical deliverables of the CRA and the horizontal deliverables of WG9

ETSI’s Technical Committee on Cyber Security (TC CYBER) is a centre of expertise in cybersecurity. It provides market-driven cybersecurity standardisation solutions, advice, and guidance to users, manufacturers, infrastructure/service operators and regulators.

The Committee works closely with stakeholders to develop standards that strengthen privacy and enhance the security capabilities for organisations and citizens across Europe and worldwide.

Our standards help make our society more secure and better protected against cybersecurity threats and are designed to be applicable across diverse domains.

The ETSI Technical Committee on Cybersecurity Working Group EU Standardisation Requests (CYBER-EUSR) is developing vertical standards in support of the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). These standards will specify cybersecurity requirements for digital products to provide presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the CRA.

Recommendation ITU-T X.506 | ISO/IEC 9594-13 establishes the background for the necessity for establishing crypto agility in the light of coming quantum computers but also when currently used cryptographic algorithms are considered unsafe. It does not alone describe WHY migration is required but also specifies in detail HOW migration is performed. It defines principles for how public-key certificates, attribute certificates and communication protocols can be prepared for migration and it provides tools for how migration can be established. The considerations on migration of public-key certificates are consistent with the approach specified in Rec. ITU-T X.509 | ISO/IEC 9594-8. The approach taken for migration of communication protocols is consistent with the one taken for public-key certificates to allow for a consistent migration strategy. Recommendation ITU-T X.506 | ISO/IEC 9594-13 is technically aligned with IEC TR 62351-90-4 for the electrical power industry.

prEN 40000-1-3: Cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements - Part 1-3: Vulnerability handling

These standards shall provide specifications applicable to vulnerability handling processes, covering all relevant product categories, to be put in place by manufacturers of the products with digital elements. Those processes shall at least allow to: (a) identify and document vulnerabilities and components contained in the product, including by drawing up a software bill of materials in a commonly used and machinereadable format covering at the very least the top-level dependencies of the product; (b) in relation to the risks posed to the products with digital elements, address and remediate vulnerabilities without delay, including by providing security updates; where technically feasible, new security updates shall be provided separately from functionality updates; (c) apply effective and regular tests and reviews of the security of the product with digital elements; (d) once a security update has been made available, share and publicly disclose information about fixed vulnerabilities, including a description of the vulnerabilities, information allowing users to identify the product with digital elements affected, the impacts of the vulnerabilities, their severity and clear and accessible information helping users to remediate the vulnerabilities; in duly justified cases, where manufacturers consider the security risks of publication to outweigh the security benefits, they may delay making public information regarding a fixed vulnerability until after users have been given the possibility to apply the relevant patch; (e) put in place and enforce a policy on coordinated vulnerability disclosure; (f) take measures to facilitate the sharing of information about potential vulnerabilities in their product with digital elements as well as in third party components contained in that product, including by providing a standardised contact address for the reporting of the vulnerabilities discovered in the product with digital elements; (g) provide for mechanisms to securely distribute updates for products with digital elements to ensure that vulnerabilities are fixed or mitigated in a timely manner, and, where applicable for security updates, in an automatic manner; (h) ensure that, where security updates are available to address identified security issues, they are disseminated without delay and, unless otherwise agreed between manufacturer and business user in relation to a tailor-made product with digital elements, free of charge, accompanied by advisory messages providing users with the relevant information, including on potential action to be taken.