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Video : Will Following ISO Standards lead to EU ACT Compliance
by Amy Ansell | Feb 14, 2024 | AI
Deep dive into world of AI regulation, the EU AI Act and the pivotal role of AI ISO standards. Watch the Video of the Webinar. Key Takeaways: ✅️ Deep dive into the relationship of ISO standards and the EU AI Act compliance. ✅️ Discover how the standards...
EU AI Act: Where Standards Meet Regulations?
by Arman Iranfar | Dec 15, 2023 | AI
Introduction The EU AI Act emerges as a significant piece of legislation, aiming to regulate the rapidly evolving AI technologies within the EU. This Act sets forth a legal framework, outlining objectives, principles, and requirements designed to ensure the ethical...
The Pillars of Safety in IEC 61508
by Andreas Gruber | Nov 20, 2023 | Functional Safety, Machinery
The IEC 61508 series of standards IEC 61508 is a globally recognized standard that provides a framework for achieving functional safety in the design and implementation of safety instrumented systems. The standard encompasses various aspects, including hardware,...
How Human Oversight and Transparency Can Ensure Trustworthy AI in the EU
by Marco Repetto | Nov 3, 2023 | AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology that can benefit society and pose significant risks to human rights, safety, and democracy. To address these challenges, the European Commission proposed a regulation on AI known as the Artificial Intelligence Act...
Understanding the Differences Between ISO 13849 and ISO 19014
by Andreas Gruber | Oct 13, 2023 | Functional Safety, Machinery
Control system safety standards are crucial in ensuring the safe operation of various systems, particularly those relying on electronic, pneumatic or other control systems to prevent injury or death of humans. A prominent standard in the machinery domain, ISO 13849,...
On the Highway to Compliance: Decoding Cybersecurity Standards in the Automotive Industry
by Loan Betend | Sep 21, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a major topic in the automotive industry. However, for newcomers in the cybersecurity world, it is not easy to understand how to integrate it as smoothly as possible into the company’s operations. Thus, this blog post aims to clarify the landscape of...
How to calculate hardware reliability in cross-domain applications
by Arman Iranfar | Sep 4, 2023 | Automotive, Functional Safety
Introduction Reliability is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety and functionality of complex systems in various industries, including automotive and industrial control. Two prominent standards that address hardware reliability in these domains are ISO 26262 and...
High-Risk AI Systems and Safety Measures: An Overview of The EU AI Act
by Arman Iranfar | Sep 3, 2023 | AI
The EU AI Act is designed to promote the development of human-centric and trustworthy AI while safeguarding public interests such as health, safety, fundamental rights, and the environment. A critical aspect of the Act is the classification and regulation of...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.3 – Focus on vehicle requirements (RXsWIN & VTA)
by Kilian Marty | Jun 22, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The first two episodes of this miniseries provide an overview of the new UN ECE R156 regulation, the related standard ISO 24089, and their management level requirements. In this third episode, the focus shifts to requirements impacting the vehicle, such as the...
Fostering Robust AI: Understanding Its Importance and Navigating the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
by Marco Repetto | Jun 12, 2023 | AI
Robustness in Artificial Intelligence systems, defined as the ability to maintain performance under various perturbations and adversarial inputs, is a critical aspect of Artificial Intelligence reliability and resilience. This article explores the concept of...
Data Quality and AI Trustworthiness
by Arman Iranfar | May 14, 2023 | AI
In the evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), trustworthiness and safety emerge as key concerns. As AI systems increasingly permeate our lives, they must be reliable, fair, and safe for all users. Central to this trustworthiness is data quality, a factor...
EU AI Act: What to Expect and How To React?
by Arman Iranfar | Apr 28, 2023 | AI
The EU AI Act, a landmark AI regulation in the European Union, establishes a comprehensive legal framework for AI systems to ensure their safe development, market-entry, and use within the EU. The EU AI Act has been purposefully designed with broad and generic...
Operational Design Domains: A Comprehensive Approach to Regulate General Purpose AI Systems in the EU
by Marco Repetto | Apr 21, 2023 | AI
The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act presents an opportunity to develop comprehensive regulations for General Purpose Artificial Intelligence systems. Applying Operational Design Domains, originally used in autonomous vehicle safety engineering, as a...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.4 – UN ECE R155 from CSMS to Vehicle Type Approval (VTA)
by Kilian Marty | Mar 8, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the fourth and last episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels.Previous episode Cyber Security...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.2 – Focus on Software Update Management Systems (SUMS)
by Kilian Marty | Jan 23, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The first episode of this miniseries put an overview of the new UN ECE R156 regulation and related standard ISO 24089. This episode will focus on the management systems for the Software update required by them, so called SUMS (Software Update Management Systems). How...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.3 – A management system story
by Kilian Marty | Nov 14, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the third episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels.Previous episode Cyber Security for Road...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.1 – Overview of UN R156 and ISO 24089
by Kilian Marty | Nov 3, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This new miniseries of posts aims to introduce the recent UN R156 for software update management systems (SUMS) and its impact on vehicle type approvals. Several episodes will be published for clarifying and developing how vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers...
IAA Transportation 2022
by Jens Henkner | Sep 22, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
I would like to share a few impressions from the IAA Transportation 2022. In a nutshell it was all about electrification, sustainability and digitalizationThe exposition had a wide and exhaustive range of applications on display from solutions from the past to new and...
CertX at the OSS 5 Conference and Expo
by Jens Henkner | Sep 19, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the OSS 5 conference and expo in Berlin 29-30. September 2022. We are looking forward to interesting discussion, inspiring presentation on Operational, Functional & System Safety for Highly to Fully Automated Vehicles!Looking forward to...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.2 – Three-steps approach for UN ECE R155 approval
by Kilian Marty | Aug 22, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the second episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels. Previous episode Cyber Security for...
Autonomous Vehicles and Safe AI
by Arman Iranfar | Jul 29, 2022 | AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a major role in modern systems and applications. However, the deployment of AI poses new risks, especially in safety-critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles, due to the inherent features of AI. Functional safety standards...
CertX new offices and subsidary in Germany founded
by Jens Henkner | Jul 25, 2022 | General
New office and subsidary in Memmingen On the 22. July CertX has created its subsidary - the CertX GmbH in Memmingen. Our head of functional safety Andreas Gruber will lead the office as managing director. I am sure you all join me in wishing him a lot of success! Our...
CertX at the Autonomous Vehicle Technology Conference and Expo
by Jens Henkner | Jun 6, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Technology conference and expo in Stuttgart 21.-23. June 2022. We will feature our strategic partnership and as well talk about our partnership with FAKT GmbH for the homologation of cars according to UNECE...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.1 – With great powers comes great responsibility
by Kilian Marty | May 30, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the first episode of a new series covering hot topics of cyber security to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for meeting required compliance levels and implementing best security practices. As introduced in one of our previous articles (see UNECE...
Munich Re acquires stake in CertX
by Jens Henkner | May 17, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity, Drones, Functional Safety, Machinery, Railways
Munich Re acquires stake in CertX New service for evaluating AI risks in cooperation with Munich Re and Fraunhofer CertX will be ready for certifications required by the EU artificial intelligence act Download the press release as pdfCertX is pleased to announce that...
CertX at the VECS 2022 Conference and Expo
by Jens Henkner | May 2, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the VECS 2022 conference and expo in Gothenburg 17.-18. May. 2022. We will feature our very recently signed partnership with FAKT GmbH for the homologation of cars according to UNECE 155/156/157 and more exciting stuff about AI! Stay tuned for...
CertX at the SMIDEX Symposium and Expo
by Jens Henkner | Nov 15, 2021 | Cybersecurity
CertX is proud part of the SMIDEX 2021 the Smart ID Exposyum 2021 for Cyber Security, Security Systems & IT Infrastructure in Zürich from 17. Nov to 18. Nov. 2021.Please join us in hall 550 in Zürich-Oerlikon. We are looking forward to inspiring disucssion on...
ArtificiaI Intelligence; Rules and Standards in Europe
by Jens Henkner | Sep 30, 2021 | AI
CertX - Standardization for Functional Safety, Cyber Security and AI The EU has published in April a proposal to regulate AI based applications and a while back a whitepaper (based on public comments during Feb.-Jun. 2020). Among the top most concerns raised are...
UNECE WP.29 / R155 – How Cyber Security will impact the automotive market as of June 2022
by Kilian Marty | Apr 1, 2021 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
Autonomous driving, connected cars, electric vehicles, and shared mobility—have dominated the agenda of automotive industry leaders in recent years. These innovations, built on the digitization of in-car systems, the extension of car IT systems into the back end, and...
The AWARD-H2020 Project has taken off
by Jens Henkner | Jan 22, 2021 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The European project “AWARD” to autonomize heavy-vehicles for logistics operations launched remotely 21 January 2020 - The 29-partner strong consortium that makes up the “All Weather Autonomous Real logistics operations and Demonstrations” (AWARD) project came...
How to implement Cyber Security acc. to IEC 62443 – Ep.5 – Security Hardening
by Kilian Marty | Jan 21, 2021 | Cybersecurity
NOTE: This article is not only for organizations that have already been hacked… The IEC 62443 is a generic standard recognized as applicable across critical sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and many others. This article is the...
CertX as partner in the AWARD H2020 EU Project
by Jens Henkner | Dec 7, 2020 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The European Commission, through the H2020 framework program, has awarded a funding grant of nearly €20 million for a 29-partner strong consortium to develop and demonstrate driverless heavy-duty vehicles in harsh weather conditions for real-logistics operations....
How to implement Cyber Security acc. to IEC 62443 – Ep.4 – Penetrations tests
by Kilian Marty | Nov 12, 2020 | Cybersecurity
NOTE: This article is not only for organizations that have already been hacked… The IEC 62443 is a generic standard recognized as applicable across critical sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and many others. This article...
Automotive Cyber Security & Compliance – Why and How
by Kilian Marty | Oct 26, 2020 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is not only for organization that have already been hacked… even if you (wrongly) think that you are not potentially subject to cyber attacks, future regulations and upcoming homologation schemes already planned to integrate cyber security as core...
How to implement Cyber Security acc. to IEC 62443 – Ep.3 – Code Analysis
by Kilian Marty | Mar 31, 2020 | Cybersecurity
NOTE: This article is not only for organizations that have already been hacked… The IEC 62443 is a generic standard recognized as applicable across critical sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and many others. This article is the...
How to implement Cyber Security acc. to IEC 62443 – Ep.2 – Secure Design
by Kilian Marty | Jan 28, 2020 | Cybersecurity
NOTE: This article is not only for organizations that have already been hacked… The IEC 62443 is a generic standard recognized as applicable across critical sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and many others. This article is the second...
CertX will be present at the Swiss Cyber Security Days
by Jens Henkner | Jan 22, 2020 | Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at Cyber Security Days - the leading cyber security conference in Switzerland. Maintaining cyber security in all aspects is an ongoing effort and mandatory to operate automated and connected systems. CertX is proud present amongst the leading...
IMI 2019 in Mannheim – Interesting Insights
by Jens Henkner | Nov 21, 2019 | Cybersecurity
CertX was present at the IT meets Industry IMI conference 19./20. Nov. in Mannheim with an opening speech from Erwin Kruschitz / Anapur defining the cyber security maturity level in a very pragmatic way. It is not a question of getting hacked but only a question of...
How to implement Cyber Security acc. to IEC 62443 – Ep.1 – Threat Analysis
by Kilian Marty | Nov 18, 2019 | Cybersecurity
DISCAIMER: this article is not only for organization that have already been hacked… The IEC 62443 is a generic standard recognized as applicable across critical sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and many others. This article is the...
Participation in the IQPC “RAMS in Rail” Conference
by Jens Henkner | Sep 23, 2019 | Railways
During the past month of August, CertX participated in the RAMS in Rail conference organized by IQPC 2019 in Berlin. This edition was the first one focused on Functional Safety, which is the core of CertX activities and expertise. The event was attended by reputed...
Four ways to improve confidence in your in-house software
by Jens Henkner | Sep 11, 2019 | Automotive, Drones, Machinery, Railways
Trace your requirements Tracing your requirements is not only a way to comply with your standards, it’s a powerful tool to ensure your software’s safety. By implementing a good requirement tracking system, every engineer knows the source of each specification...
CertX at the CES Asia
by Jens Henkner | Jun 6, 2019 | Automotive, Cybersecurity, Drones
We will be present on the CES Asia at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) and like to welcome you at our booth 6409 in hall 5. We are looking forward to interesting discussions about autonomous systems, the technologies involved and the related safety...
CertX Enables Functional Safety and Cybersecurity for Drone Operators Across Europe
by Jens Henkner | Jan 24, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Drones
I had an interview with Commercial UAV News and Expos and shared thoughts about synergies between different methodologies used in different domains. Read more about this in the article Interested to learn more? Contact me or read more about our...
Participation in the Swiss Cyber Security Days 2019
by Kilian Marty | Jan 11, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Non classé
[Post Conference Update] Get access to the presentation support here: SCSD19-CertX_IEC62443_in_a_nutshell_published We are pleased to announce that CertX will participate in the first Swiss Cyber Security Days taking place at the Fribourg Forum on 27...
The medical world in the age of cybersecurity
by Kilian Marty | Nov 26, 2018 | Cybersecurity
We were delighted to participate in the 2018 BlackAlps conferences in Yverdon at the beginning of November. In addition to many trendy cybersecurity-related topics such as quantum computing and cryptocurrencies, the BlackAlps team decided this year to organize a...
Standardisation of ISO SOTIF had a significant progress
by Amin Amini | Nov 18, 2018 | Automotive
The head of the automotive department of CertX has been nominated by the Swiss Association for Standardisation (SNV) as the only Swiss delegate to participate to the ISO standardisation group for ISO 21448. In the last meeting held in Pisa in November 2018 the group...