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ETSI signs agreement with Eurosmart to cooperate on secure elements
April 2016 by Marc Jacob
During its 67th General Assembly on 19 April 2016, ETSI signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Eurosmart. This cooperation agreement will enrich the ecosystem of security-related issues in ETSI and help to ensure the security robustness of next generation (5G) telecommunications networks.
Eurosmart is a Brussels based industry association of global technology providers with a strong expertise in the management of digital security within hostile environments. Eurosmart advocates the use of hardware with strong security functions. The association expresses recommendations on the best ways to secure content, and supports the deployment of certified and standardized solutions that integrate security and privacy by design features.
Sharing a common view on the importance of the role of ETSI in the European Commission’s ICT standardization rolling plan and the European Union’s Digital Single Market, both organizations will develop collaborative activities in various ways. They will identify experts working on similar issues within their respective working bodies, in order to establish a bridge between EU legislative and political initiatives, primarily followed by Eurosmart, and standardization mandates and activities, ETSI’s area of interest.
Eurosmart annual forecast indicates that more than 9 billion secure element units will be shipped worldwide in 2016, out of which nearly 60% are based on ETSI SIM card and UICC card standards, developed by ETSI’s Technical Committee for the Smart Card Platform (TC SCP).
