In the past seven years, the European Union has made landmark efforts to bolster defenses against cyber-attacks and improve product security. The EU Cybersecurity Act (CSA), under development since 2018, is creating an extensive independent European body of cybersecurity regulation as part of the “single digital market” goal. The more recent Cyber Security Resilience Act (CRA) targets a broad swath of consumer products including IoT, cloud, communications, payments, automotive, and more. Product developers will be required to protect their systems and networks from cyber threats, and report significant security incidents. A certification scheme is coming—outlines of the program will become clear over the next 2 years.

These mandates have produced wide-ranging effects on the international standards community, and developers of ICT products and services worldwide will bear a considerable burden under forthcoming certification requirements. But certification will also provide reassurance to consumers that their data is being protected, and increase trust in the global digital economy. Now is the time to begin planning for and participating in ongoing changes.

Submission Guidelines

The EU Cyber Acts Conference Program Committee seeks proposals for presentations from industry professionals with experience in technology, application, and policy of certification standards. We are seeking:

Front-Line Professionals: We prefer high-quality vendor-neutral presentations from integrators, consultants, procurers, deployers, administrators, government organizations, and academia.

Strong Topic Focus: Our focus is on the future specification, development, evaluation, certification and approval of standards for ICT products, services, and processes in the EU.

Neutral Content: We prefer proposals from front-line implementers. Product vendors are encouraged to recruit clients and partners who are front-line implementers as presenters.

Contact

The International Conference on the EU Cyber Security & Resilience Acts is produced by Cnxtd (“Connected”) Inc. Event Media Corp., the leading producer of international events focused on ICT Product Certification including The International Cryptographic Module Conference, The Commercial Solutions for Classified Conference, The International Common Criteria Conference, DoDIN APL Day, Cyber Trust Mark Day, CMMC Day, ISO/IEC 19790 Cryptographic Module Day, AI Cyber Day, Common Criteria Day, PQ Cyber Day, and IoT Payments Day.

Project Director: Bill Rutledge, Tel +1 212-866-2169, bill@cnxtd.com