Suggested readings week 37/2022
State of the Union: New EU cybersecurity rules
September 15th, 2022 will be known as a lamdmark day: the European Commission presents a proposal for a new Cyber Resilience Act.
The Act aims at protecting consumers and businesses from products with inadequate cybersecurity features.
This is a first ever European Union wide legislation of its kind, containing mandatory cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, throughout their whole lifecycle.
first ever: the first one for all consumer products, to be now adopted by all countries (specific rules already exist for Vehicles, Medical to name a few);
mandatory cybersecurity requirements: to be adopted now by all countries;
digital elements: all products that contain digital parts, either connected to the Internet or not.
Stay tuned for solutions, consultancies and penetration/remediation services business rise!
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_5374
https://www.politico.eu/article/new-cyber-act-to-raise-safety-standards-across-the-bloc
Defects of Software
A great philosopher discusses about defects of software, and somehow their onthology.
A great takeway from this paper by Luciano Floridi is that wording and onthology is important, event for technical and specific stuff. Never take for granted that the meaning of a description is shared.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839344
Climate unchange
Some reasons for hope.