We're thrilled to announce that our Charter of Trust Chairwoman Natalia Oropeza has been featured in the annual IT edition of the brand eins magazine!

In an interview with Dorit Kowitz, Natalia dives deep into the pressing issues facing the cybersecurity landscape, explaining how the Charter of Trust bundles the expertise of different businesses across several regions to stay resilient in the face of evolving threats. As Natalia Oropeza says: "We all win if cybercrime doesn’t win."

Here are three key insights from her interview:
🔑 Collaboration is essential: No single organization can tackle cyber threats alone. The Charter of Trust is a prime example that businesses nowadays are more transparent when it comes to attacks and that sharing information in this field can be beneficial.
🔑 Addressing the digital skills gap: The Charter of Trust is working to address the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals by encouraging diversity and actively promoting opportunities for women to join the field.
🔑 Unified regulations: Harmonizing global cybersecurity standards will reduce vulnerabilities, helping businesses and governments combat threats more effectively.

The full interview is available here: https://lnkd.in/gRm6ZDGC

We are in the middle of Hashtag#CyberSecurityAwarnessMonth and many of our Charter of Trust Partners are promoting it with great initiatives. One of the programs that we want to highlight is last week’s panel organized by Allianz talking about “Security in light of (gen)AI”.

The complexity and urgency of this topic gathered a lot of interest, with 600+ attendees throughout the whole panel, which was composed of Jon-Paul Jones, COO at AZ Commercial, Firas Ben Hassan, GenAI expert & Manager of AllianzGPT at AZ Technology, Dr. Martin J. Krämer, External Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, and Dr Sumit Chanda, Global CISO at Eviden & Chair of the Global External Engagement Working Group at the Charter of Trust.

We are pleased to see Dr. Sumit Chanda from Eviden bringing in his unique CISO insight on what these emerging technologies mean in day-to-day cybersecurity practices and bringing in the Charter of Trust perspective on this topic as well.

Thank you, Ervin Cihan and Haydn Griffiths for inviting other CoT Partners and for the great initiatives that Allianz is putting together within this year’s Security Awareness Month. And special thanks to Heather Armond for the great moderation.

In response to rising cyber threats, governments are enacting new cybersecurity laws and regulations, with some, like the United States (US), moving from voluntary public-private partnerships to more stringent regulatory approaches, while others, like the European Union (EU), are updating existing regulations (e.g. the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive 2, or NIS 2) and creating new ones (e.g., Cyber Resilience Act, CRA). These efforts often set precedents for other nations, but the lack of international coordination in cybersecurity regulation remains a challenge. This fragmentation, coupled with shortages of cybersecurity talent, risks diverting resources from essential cyber defense to compliance, potentially increasing costs, complexity, and undermining resilience and innovation. Some solutions include reciprocity agreements, adopting international standards, and leveraging third-party assessments to streamline regulations and improve global alignment.

To read the full publication, see the download link below.

Detlef Houdeau, Senior Director, Business Development at Infineon Technologies was a speaker at the inaugural UK/EU Summit organized by our newest Associated Partners Shared Assessments.

💡Under the theme “Risk to Resilience” the first event of this series was held in London and brought together professionals from different industries and regions. Detlef participated in the panel about the complex regulatory landscape and emphasized that new legislation like the EU AI Act, DORA and Hashtag#NIS2 continue to push the standard of care on cybersecurity and other risks.

Thanks to Shared Assessments for organizing such an amazing event and inviting the Charter of Trust to participate in this high-class panel alongside Andrew Moyad, CEO at Shared Assessments.

Strong networks and effective cooperation are the key to successfully shaping the digital future in Germany. Cybersecurity is a team effort, and that was again visible last week at the 36th Cyber Security Day in Berlin.

🌐On 26 September 2024, the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Alliance for Cyber Security, and the DIHK invited experts, companies, authorities and political decision-makers to jointly strengthen Germany's cyber resilience.

The event was a great mix of policy debate, practical exchange, workshop and networking under the motto ‘Stronger Together: Greater Resilience through Cooperation’.

✨ One of the highlights of the day was the closing panel with Claudia Plattner, President of the BSI, Dr. Stefan Saatmann, Deputy Head Berlin Office at Siemens, Konstantin von Notz, Member of the Bundestag for B90/Greens, and Alexander von Gernler, German Informatics Society, interchanging ideas to foster resilience through collaboration. Initiatives like the CoT baseline requirements and its huge potential for international harmonizing cybersecurity regulations were discussed as well.

Let’s all work together so that closer cooperation between the BSI and businesses bring more tangible effects to increase digital resilience. Special thanks to Nils Hasenau for providing the excellent photos and also to Simon Ulmer and Ralf König for attending the event.

The Charter of Trust at the Nordic Cyber Summit
What a great opportunity for Morten Kromann, Head of Industrial Security Denmark at Siemens, to present the Charter of Trust perspective on cybersecurity regulations like Hashtag#NIS2 at the Nordic Cyber Summit in Copenhagen.

This year the summit was again a formidable event to engage with top cybersecurity experts, share insights, and discuss strategies to navigate the ever-evolving threat landscape in the Nordic region with the theme “Fortifying the Future: Building Cyber Resilience in a Transformed World”.

A main aspect highlighted by Morten was the discrepancies between the NIS2 directive’s incidents reporting timeframe and related provisions adopted in other legislations. These regulatory overlaps create difficult compliance environments for industry and costly operational pressures which add to the fragmentation of the market instead of harmonizing it. That is why the Charter of Trust emphasizes streamlining reporting requirements stemming from these different legislative frameworks and developing single entry points for reporting on the national level.

These and more points will also be discussed during our next Security-by-default Webinar taking place on the 29th of October. Sign up to find out more what the Charter of Trust Partners views are on how to prepare for NIS2 and other regulations: https://lnkd.in/eh_z8Z63

We are excited to announce that Shared Assessments has officially joined the Charter of Trust Associated Partners Forum (APF), further reinforcing our mission to enhance global cybersecurity standards.

The APF is a collaborative network that brings together regulators, research institutes, universities, and think tanks with the Charter of Trust's contributing partners to strengthen the digital security landscape. The APF has grown over the years and already counts more than 15 partners from the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

"Shared Assessments is excited and honored to join the Charter of Trust community of cybersecurity leaders and practitioners, and we are committed to working with the organisation to improve the resilience and risk posture of their membership and their associated suppliers. Since its founding in 2018, the Charter of Trust has promoted continuous improvement in the standard of care for cybersecurity risk management. At Shared Assessments, we are fully aligned with the Charter’s vision, including the organisation’s 10 Principles and the philosophy that cybersecurity ‘is everyone’s task.’" says CEO Andrew Moyad.

Founded in 2005, Shared Assessments is a global membership organization dedicated to developing the best practices, education, and products to drive third-party risk assurance. Shared Assessments is a practitioner led organization with over 1’500 active professionals available to network across their 13 global committees disseminating papers, studies, and further research.

At Shared Assessments, the belief in collaboration and the exchange of knowledge plays a critical role in tackling today’s cybersecurity challenges. Together with them, Charter of Trust is working towards creating a stronger digital landscape across industries and borders by sharing the extensive knowledge our partners have.

We are proud to share that Charter of Trust partners actively contributed during the G7-focused workshop entitled “International Cybersecurity Regulatory Dialogue,” organised by Wilton Park and LSE on September 3-4 in the UK.

The event gathered high level representatives from G7 governments, industry and academia to discuss and identify opportunities to improve international coordination and reciprocity of cybersecurity regulations, including with respect to AI’s impact on cybersecurity. As part of this workshop, our Charter of Trust Partners highlighted the importance of advancing greater international alignment of cybersecurity regulations by providing concrete examples of challenges and risks posed by regulatory fragmentation faced by industries operating at a global level.

We hope the insights from this event will inspire our policy leaders to drive international cybersecurity regulatory alignment in the coming months. As always, the Charter of Trust remains a key alliance and an active participant in furthering the international public-private dialogue.

We are excited about the potential impact of these discussions and look forward to driving meaningful progress in international cybersecurity regulation.

We are thrilled to announce that Danfoss has officially joined the Charter of Trust alliance, further strengthening our commitment to advancing harmonised cybersecurity approaches to make the digital world of tomorrow safer.

The Charter of Trust is an industry alliance that brings together leading global companies to help establish and promote the highest standards of cybersecurity: “We are delighted to welcome Danfoss as part of the Charter of Trust. Their commitment to cybersecurity and their unique experience and expertise will further strengthen our collective efforts,” says Natalia Oropeza, Chairwoman of the Charter of Trust.

"At Danfoss, we engineer solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification. In an increasingly connected landscape, cybersecurity is crucial, and we firmly believe that overcoming cybersecurity challenges can only be achieved through collaboration and collective effort. Joining the Charter of Trust enables us to collaborate with industry leaders, share best practices, and address evolving cyber threats together," says Morten Pors Simonsen, Chief Information Officer, Danfoss.

"Lessons learned in the field of cybersecurity should not be kept in an isolated environment" - said Thanassis Diogos from IBM during the panel about collaborative strategies in the Balkans at the SEE Beyond Ministerial Leadership Dialogue. Against the backdrop of evolving cyber threats and the heightened risk landscape during election cycles, the Charter of Trust welcomes the advocacy efforts of its members and calls for enhanced information sharing.

The overarching theme that came up during the esteemed panel (Michail Bletsas, Vangelis Ouzounis, Franziska Klopfer, Anne BLICKHAN) moderated by Konstantinos Foutzopoulos was trust. Trust not only in our critical infrastructure and supply chains in combination, but also trust in sharing your experiences and problems with your peers. Cyber has now become a hard power and in the digital space, we are all neighbours. Sharing knowledge and foster openness is essential.

The last three days we came together for our biannual Collaboration Week. It's been a valuable opportunity to recognize the importance of teamwork, innovation, and shared purpose in our endeavours.

This Collaboration week we had lively discussions around our transition towards our new governance structure, which will ramp up our capabilities as a global cybersecurity alliance to provide valuable recommendations and shared best practices on emerging technologies, supply chain, security practices, education and harmnonised regulatory frameworks.

Throughout this week, we've seen the tangible benefits of working together, from sharing insights to coordinating efforts in tackling common issues around cybersecurity.

A big thank you to Bosch for hosting the Charter of Trust partners. Let's carry forward the spirit of collaboration in our ongoing efforts. Together, we can make meaningful progress in safeguarding digital integrity and promoting responsible cyber practices.

The Charter of Trust presents this Manifesto as a call to action for Policymakers to join forces in the pursuit of a secure and resilient digital environment. As a collective of leading technology, cybersecurity, and industry stakeholders, we believe that a united and collaborative approach is essential for effectively combating cyber threats that endanger the security, privacy, and prosperity of our societies.
Our vision is to establish a strong, secure, and resilient digital Europe that fosters innovation, economic growth, and social progress while protecting individual rights and safeguarding the values of a democratic society.