Standardize and Certify
SPAC Alliance advocates for the use of recognized secure standards capable of harmonizing protection levels and facilitating system interoperability (including the SSCP protocol). These standards are integrated into solutions that need to be certified to ensure the highest levels of security and interoperability for both users and legislators.
Why Standardize
STANDARDIZE
RAISE AND HARMONIZE THE LEVEL OF SECURITY
Secure standards, such as the SSCP communication protocol, make it possible to define an unambiguous level of security shared by all who use them, from businesses to governments.
This ensures the trust of partners and users.
Result: a higher level of security shared by an increasing number of players.
OPTIMIZE INVESTMENTS
Sharing standards enables numerous cost reductions: development, user training, adaptation to new threats, and faster response in case of a crisis.
Moreover, standards allow access to broader markets and substantially improve your ROI through a high level of interoperability.
CONNECT DEVICES & SYSTEMS
Systems and devices sharing the same standards can communicate and interact more easily. They reduce the potential attack surface by limiting the heterogeneity of security levels and provide a stronger, coordinated response in case of an attack or threat. The importance of interoperability has been recognized by the EU, which recommends the integration and use of standards, and even mandates them in its latest Directives and Regulations.
INNOVATE SUSTAINABLY
The integration of standards in the design of products and solutions allows for:
- optimizing their interoperability, thus facilitating their wider deployment,
- ensuring their long-term integration and on-site operation,
- easing their evolution, particularly in terms of security when facing new threats. Planned obsolescence is no longer acceptable,
- maximizing their robustness and security level (the concept of Secure by Design)…
… and certify
CERTIFY
ENSURE THE LEVEL OF SECURITY
Certification is, above all, a guarantee, as a trusted technology poorly integrated does not provide protection.
Whether functional or security-related, certification brings the transparency needed to build a reliable protection strategy. It may apply to a process, a service, software, a component, a device, or even a solution as a whole.
COMPLY WITH A REGULATORY FRAMEWORK (NIS 2, CER, CRA, GDPR...)
Through its regulatory framework, the European Union establishes several risk levels – Basic, Substantial, and High – pursuing a threefold objective:
- Build our digital sovereignty
- Raise and harmonize our security level
- Standardize certification schemes, notably through ENISA, which promotes the creation, deployment, and use of standards to facilitate the construction of a cohesive European framework
SSCP PROTOCOL: OPEN HIGH-SECURITY STANDARD
SSCP PROTOCOL
SPAC Alliance supports this approach to standardization and certification with the SSCP standard, driven by our federation and dedicated working groups.
SSCP, an open high-security standard, is currently the most integrated in certified access control solutions. It has three levels of certification: basic, substantial, and high.