BSI develops discussion basis on security

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Bonn, February 25, 2020. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published a list of requirements as a basis for discussion on the development of security requirements for smartphones. To ensure that users can move as safely as possible in the digital world, the list of requirements lists security criteria that smartphones should meet in their delivery state and beyond.

The catalogue is the starting point for a public discourse doctor database with manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), network operators and civil society. The BSI aims to involve all social groups in the further development of these requirements, which will in future be incorporated into guidelines for issuing the IT security label for smartphones planned by the federal government.

"In recent years, smartphones have become the control center through which we control and handle more and more everyday processes. Insecure smartphones can therefore very quickly have very real negative effects. Consumers should be able to rely on the fact that a smartphone already contains a basic level of IT security when they buy it, so that they can use the possibilities of digitalization as smoothly as possible. Manufacturers and OEMs are therefore called upon to make the devices as secure as possible, right from the start and over a certain period of use. Our list of requirements is a guide to more security by design and security by default," emphasizes BSI President Arne Schönbohm.