EuroDIG 2024 · Pre 9 | IS3C: Consumer protection and its role in a more secure and safer Internet.
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Published 2024-06-25
Session teaser
IGF Dynamic Coalition Internet Standards, Security and Safety (IS3C) brings together key stakeholders from the technical community, civil society, government policymakers, regulators, and corporate and individual adopters, with the shared goal of making online activity and interaction more secure and safer by achieving more widespread and rapid deployment of existing, security-related Internet standards and ICT best practices.
In 2024 IS3C introduces a new angle to its goal to make the Internet more secure and safer: consumer protection. In this workshop the topic is discussed from several angles based on this question: What are the potential roles of consumer organisations and regulators vis-à-vis ICTs developed and manufactured secure by design?
IS3C has published reports based on it research into IoT security by design, Education and skills and Procurement and supply chain management. In these reports IS3C has shown that large organisations insufficiently use their economic power to ensure that the ICTs they procure are secure by design. Also, that there is a considerable skills gap between the demands of the ICT and cybersecurity industry and the offer of tertiary educational curricula. Internet standards seldom play have the important role they deserve here.