Security standards create, for instance, the basis for data security and data protection on a smart grid. They ensure a dedicated security level on the technical, organizational and process-related levels. This is very important for, among other things, electrical vehicles because massive data streams are generated as a result of their communication on a smart grid.
The same applies to information streams in a smart home in which all of the appliances are networked and communicate with each other. The increased complexity of the overall system has resulted in a number of opportunities for attacks. In the context of increasing cybercrime, the importance of cybersecurity is indisputable.
Secure identities are the starting point for the security chain that secures the data streams on the hardware, software and process level. Standards and specifications ensure that every machine and every piece of hardware, has its own unique identity that simultaneously complies with privacy protection requirements. If an attacker successfully and illegally assumes an identity, all of the security measures built on that identity, for instance, access protection, are useless.
To prevent decreases in usability of systems as a result of all of the security solutions, standards and specifications also implement cybersecurity that protects technologies and users from risks, while IT systems remain usable by and acceptable to the user.