Toward a Blockchain-based Platform to Manage Cybersecurity Certification of IoT devices
This addresses the need for increased trust in cybersecurity certification for IoT devices, as highlighted by EU regulations, but is incremental as it applies existing blockchain technology to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of managing cybersecurity certification for IoT devices by proposing a blockchain-based platform to enhance transparency and traceability, motivated by the EU Cybersecurity Act, with a focus on IoT devices as a case study.
The goal of this paper is to propose a blockchain-based platform to enhance transparency and traceability of cybersecurity certification information motivated by the recently adopted EU Cybersecurity Act. The proposed platform is generic and intended to support the trusted exchange of cybersecurity certification information for any electronic product, service, or process. However, for the purposes of this paper, we focus on the case study of the cybersecurity certification of IoT devices, which are explicitly referenced in the recently adopted Cybersecurity Act as one of the main domains where it is highlighted the need for an increased level of trust.