Standardisation in the field of Electronic Identities and Trust Service Providers
This paper explains why standards are important for cyber security, specifically in the area of electronic identification and trust services providers. A number of challenges associated with the definition and deployment of standards in the area of…
Implementation of Art 15: Security breaches notifications in trust services
The European Commission proposed on July 2012 a draft regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, which will replace the existing Electronic Signature Directive 1999/93/EC. Article…
Guidelines for trust service providers - Part 3: Mitigating the impact of security incidents
This document recommends measures to mitigate the impact of security incidents on trust service providers (TSP) by proposing suitable technical and organisational means to handle the security risks posed to the TSP. This is done using a…
Guidelines for trust service providers - Part 2: Risk assessment
This document covers the following aspects of Trust Service Providers operations:
• Assets: identification, classification and evaluation
• Threats to assets: classification and evaluation
• Vulnerabilities present in the environment
• Probability…
Recommendations for QTSPs based on Standards - Technical guidelines on trust services
Following the publication of the eIDAS Regulation, a set of secondary and co-regulatory acts had to be published in order to provide technical guidance on how to implement the specific requirements of the eIDAS Regulation (in the TSP part of…
EU Managed Security Services Certification to drive the cybersecurity market
Following the request of the European Commission for the development of a candidate certification scheme for Managed Security Services, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launches a call for expression of interest to participate in the…
Conformity Assessment of Qualified Trust Service Providers
This document provides an overview of the conformity assessment framework for QTSPs as set out in the eIDAS Regulation, i.e. aiming to confirm that the assessed QTSP/QTS fulfils its requirements. This report discusses the typical process flow and…
Security Framework for Qualified Trust Service Providers
This document proposes a security framework to achieve compliance with Article 19 of the eIDAS Regulation, to which both non-QTSP and QTSP are subject. Nevertheless, Article 19.1 states that the security measures “shall ensure that the level of…
Annual Incident Analysis Report for the Trust Service Providers
This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the incident reporting procedure in the EU under the Article 19 of the eIDAS Regulation (2014/910/EC). Considering the fact that only the second half of 2016 was applicable and moreover that this…
Reinforcing trust and security in the area of electronic communications and online services
This study provides an overview of well-established security practices, for the purpose of sketching the notion of “state-of-the-art” in a number of categories of measures, as they are listed in ENISA’s guidelines for SMEs on the security of…