From: CircleID
As we increasingly move towards an IoT world, vendors of safety-critical devices will be patching their systems just as regularly as phone and computer vendors do now. Researchers warn that many regulators who previously thought only in terms of safety will have to start thinking of security as well. From a recent project conducted by a research group at Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge for the European Commission, comes a report on what will happen to safety regulation once computers are embedded invisibly everywhere. This will require major changes to safety regulation and certification, the report warns.
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— “The EU is already the world’s main privacy regulator, as Washington doesn’t care and nobody else is big enough to matter … The strategic political challenge facing the European Union is whether it wants to be the world’s safety regulator. If it rises to this challenge, then just as engineers in Silicon Valley now consider Europe to be the world’s privacy regulator, they will defer to Europe on safety too. The critical missing resource is expertise on cybersecurity, and particularly for the European regulators and other institutions that will have to adapt to this new world.”
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