The EU Commission has recently put forward a proposal for cyber-security certifications, celebrating itself for working towards an EU-wide seal of approval for information society services and products, and boosting the EU digital market as well as consumer trust. But while cyber-certifications are a popular political idea, they will almost certainly work poorly, even counterproductively,…

With European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) well under way, a couple of days before the ‘Les Assises’ cybersecurity event starts in Monaco, the Alliance for Digital Trust (ACN) and Hexatrust are sounding the alarm on the content of the European Cybersecurity Act. This act was deposited rather abruptly and very hurriedly on the desk of the European…

On 14 February 2017, Microsoft, portraying itself as a defender of Internet users, proposed a “Digital Geneva Convention” in response to the proliferation of cyberattacks from states. The digital giant called on states to draw up and sign an internationally binding convention that would aim to protect civilians against cyberattacks from states, in the manner of…