Talking About Cybersecurity and Cell Phones

Feb. 28, 2022

Alex Leadbeater, ETSI TC CYBER Chair, discusses the organization's new standard focusing on cybersecurity and cell phones.

Alix Paultre

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Defining security and assurance requirements for smart phones and tablets, ETSI recently released the "Consumer Mobile Device Protection Profile, ETSI TS 103 732" specification, which identifies key security and privacy risks for user data and appropriate protection. The ETSI standard specifies security requirements for consumer mobile devices, ensuring protection of key user data. We speak to Alex Leadbeater, ETSI TC CYBER Chair, about this initiative.

The ETSI specification covers security features such as cryptographic support, user data protection, identification and authentication, security management, privacy protection, resistance to physical attack, secure boot, and trusted communication channels. ETSI TS 103 732 defines security assurance requirements and is suitable for certification initiatives such as the European Cybersecurity Act, offering a common methodology for evaluators to assess the security of consumer mobile devices.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.