Smart grid and EU’s cybersecurity and data protection certification
Cybersecurity is one of the key targets of the EU critical digital capacities that aims at developing and deploying ICTs in a secure way in critical sectors like the energy sector. In the recent past, issues of cybersecurity have been at the forefront of EU’s regulatory reform and have seen, among other things, the introduction of certification schemes for ICT products, services, and processes, as well as for data processing operation concerning personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These policies aim to provide an avenue for consumers to assess the compliance of products and services that include security functionality as well as personal data processing operations by data controllers. Certification also affords manufacturers, service providers and data controllers a way to demonstrate compliance in a verifiable manner through a third-party assessment.
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