TSP services, standards and risk analysis report : report

The European Commission presented in June 2012 a proposal for a new Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, which will supersede the current Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures. Art. 15 of the proposed Regulation establishes certain provisions regarding the security requirements applicable to trust service providers. In order to facilitate the implementation of this provision, as well as to generally support trust service providers (TSP) in the introduction of security best practices, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is working in 2013 on a series of studies on the security aspects of trust service providers issuing electronic certificates, as well as on the security and interoperability aspects specific to the new trust services foreseen in the proposed Regulation.