The document discusses the Charter of Trust, a collaborative initiative to improve cybersecurity. It outlines key global trends increasing cybersecurity risks like technological changes, workforce gaps, and growing threats. The Charter combines technology, politics, and business approaches to establish cybersecurity requirements and shape regulation. Signatories commit to principles like supply chain security, security by default, cybersecurity education, and harmonizing global regulation. The goal is to generate trust in digital transformation by embedding security in industry and policy.

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Charter of Trust
on Cybersecurity
Accountability Summit 2019 | No 06-07, 2019 in De Hague
Jacques Kruse Brandao, Global Head of Advocacy at SGS Digital Trust Services

2. Key global trends that are making
cyber security increasingly important
Rising political interest in cybersecurity, caused by increasing cyber risks
in an increasingly complex technological environmentGlobal level
Growing Cybersecurity
risk to businesses
Cyber incidents named
No. 2 global risk to
businesses in 2019
Fundamental tech-
nological changes
Technological disruptive
change such as IoT,
Artificial intelligence,
and ever-growing
connectivity
Resource shortage
increasing
Cybersecurity work-
force gap is widening –
and has increased to
3 million in 2019
“Policy is back”
Increasing cybersecurity
specific laws and
regulations worldwide,
e.g., Californian IoT law
published in 2019
Local vs. global
regulation
Regulation is stuck bet-
ween the urge for global
harmonization and indivi-
dual national approaches
and lags behind techno-
logical development
Increasing threat
landscape
Increasing capabilities
of state-sponsored
hacking, professionali-
zation of attacks and
AI applications

3. Digitalization is changing the world
It determines how we live, work, communicate and do business.
But the only way people can truly support digital transformation and
generate new potential for society is when they trust the technology.
That’s why, together with strong partners, we launched the Charter of Trust.
After two years, we can proudly say:
The collaborative approach works best.

4. With our ten principles, we have taken an important step toward
making the digital world more secure.
01 Ownership of cyber- and IT security
06 Education
02 Responsibility throughout the digital supply chain
07 Certification for critical infrastructure and solutions
03 Security by default
08 Transparency and response
04 User-centricity
09 Regulatory framework
05 Innovation and co-creation
10 Joint initiatives

5. The Charter of Trust combines
three strong dimensions and …
… offers proven approaches to secure the
digital world – by establishing, piloting and
implementing global requirements and concepts.
… aims at a global regulatory framework for
cybersecurity – by shaping the political debate
worldwide through foresight and reason.
… embeds cybersecurity in the digital transition
of industry – by successfully putting security
at the core of digital business models.
Technology
Politics
Business
TRUST
Through a holistic approach we can make the difference.

6. Every day we prove and reaffirm that in the following areas
We’re scaling Supply Chain Security.
After setting the baseline requirements for
our suppliers, we are now taking the next steps
by understanding the needs and driving the
implementation with respective tools and proven
approaches.

7. We’re convinced: Security by Default will
be a must-have across all our businesses.
That’s why we came up with a joint definition
and develop a first roll-out plan for use-cases,
applications and industries.

8. We’re driving Cybersecurity education
We believe people can be an organization’s best firewall.
So we commit to driving education in our organizations.
We’ve also launched activities for selected target groups –
from students, via SMEs, to education providers.

9. We’re shaping the harmonization of
regulation and standardization globally.
Thanks to our collective efforts, we are shaping
global political regulations on the national,
European and global levels.

10. And by doing so, we’re living up to our purpose
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─ Effective cybersecurity is a precondition for
an open, fair and successful digital future.
─ By adhering to and promoting our principles,
we’re creating an instrumental foundation of trust for
all of us.
As a credible and reliable voice,
we collaborate with key stakeholders
to achieve trust in cybersecurity
for global citizens.
Together we strongly believe:

11. We sign for
cybersecurity!
We sign the
Charter of Trust.
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