When a citizen of the European Union buys a car or a toy, it is certain that the CE mark guarantees him a level of safety. To date, there is nothing like this for connected devices and digital products, the number of which is growing very quickly. A blind spot that the Cyber Resilience Act, a draft European regulation to be unveiled by the European Commission on Thursday, wants to fix.
Becoming essential in the daily lives of individuals and businesses, these connected objects are also a key vector for cyber attacks. “If everything is connected, everything can be broken” Summed up European Commission President Ursula von de Leyen in her 2021 State of the Union Address. According to figures provided by Brussels services, two-thirds of major successful cyber-attacks were carried out using software or smart objects known as: but unpatched vulnerabilities.
The regulation states that all products, whether hardware or software, capable of…
Source: Le Figaro
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