certification and standard setting --- It is quite worrisome that buyers of softwares can only trust the providers and hope all will be fine... Can we made a parallel between construction safety standards (we trust the builder and go to a balcony without fear) and cyber security standards? Softwares and other IT devices should meet security standards to protect the users. I realise it might be a very complex task to define standards, but it could probably protect from basic cyber attacks?

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch