Samsung, LG Seek Voluntary, Industry-Led Cyber Trust Program
Samsung Electronics told the FCC a cyber trust mark program for IoT devices should be voluntary, “industry-led, transparent and evolving.” The program “should leverage IoT security standards that are risk-based as well as regularly and easily updatable to keep pace…
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with evolving threats, technologies, and techniques,” Samsung told Public Safety Bureau staff, according to a filing posted Wednesday in docket 23-239. The program should also “start with IoT devices, rather than products,” Samsung said: “Samsung agrees with the weight of the record that focusing the Program initially on devices will enable the FCC to implement the Program with speed and efficiency, while allowing stakeholders time to develop an approach to more complex IoT products.” LG Electronics reported a call with an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr. “The success of the program will rely as much on branding, marketing, and consumer education as on regulation, compliance, and enforcement,” LG said: “The Commission should seek to maximize device manufacturer participation in the program, and should minimize administrative burdens or program infrastructure obligations that will deter participation while offering little corresponding consumer value.”