The final proposal of the European Cyber Resilience Act is publicly available since September 2022 and so are the results of the EU's impact assessment of the planned regulation. While the overall need for the European Cyber Resilience Act or a similarly targeted regulation is out of question so is the fact that it will impact enterprises throughout Europe in the market of digital product development and sales. In this article we will offer a high-level analysis of the regulation itself, provide some clarification regarding its scope and the potential impact as well as immediate remediation steps enterprises can take to address the requirements.

ONEKEY and CERTAINITY - together for more cybersecurity In October we announced our joint research cooperation, and we are able to present you our first findings. We recently deployed the first component of our “zero-day identification” module, which aimed at identifying vulnerability patterns in scripting languages. It’s been a long time coming and we want to share a few technical details about it with you. Our objective is to support identification of vulnerability patterns in both scripting languages and compiled binaries.

CERTAINITY offers all employees ample opportunities for professional and personal growth – during interesting customer projects and via dedicated trainings. Michael Brunner decided to take this offer to expand his already profound security architecture knowledge and attended the SABSA foundation courses in October 2022. SABSA is a proven methodology for developing business-driven, risk and opportunity focused Security Architectures at both enterprise and solutions level that traceably support business objectives. Thereby, it is ensured that security services are designed, delivered, and supported as an integral part of IT management infrastructure and in accordance with business needs.

ONEKEY - one of the leading European specialists for automated IoT/OT security & compliance analyzes and CERTAINITY GmbH - the European cybersecurity consultant, will conduct joint research activities in the cybersecurity environment in the future. The focus will be on networked, intelligent devices and industrial controls and the results will be published on a regular basis. Digitalization offers extraordinary opportunities for the economy and society. Nevertheless this also create considerable risks of espionage, manipulation and endangerment of privacy.