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2024: The Year of Secure Design

By Stephen de Vries, CEO, IriusRisk

In 2023, we saw governments and global cybersecurity agencies begin to put the building blocks in place
for secure design and take cyber defense to the software and system vendors. The US took significant
strides in developing legislation and guidance for software manufacturers, and across Europe we saw
further tightening on cybersecurity requirements for all hardware and software products with the Cyber
Resilience Act.

This year it is about action. In 2024, organizations need to respond to the guidance and regulations and
ensure the implementation of security by design in software development and architecture to protect
against the cyber threat.

It is vital that cybersecurity professionals understand how to implement security by design and how to
approach some of the organizational challenges they may need to overcome. But before we examine
what businesses need to do, let’s remind ourselves of what was introduced.

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