Wallet experts are being rallied to join an Ad Hoc Working Group, which will be launched by ENISA with enough support to develop the EU Digital Identity Wallets Cybersecurity Certification.
The call gauges interest in establishing the working group to support the development of a cybersecurity certification scheme for EUDI Wallets. ENISA – which stands for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity – was contacted by the European Commission earlier this year to prepare a candidate certification scheme amid the EU’s push for compliance and conception of EU digital ID wallets per member state.
With a 2026 deadline for cooperation, the EUDI Wallet is Europe’s answer to standardising digital wallets and identification, whilst converging with the availability of other digital credentials and services as part of the wallet design. The wallet enables convenient online identification to access public and private services where person ID documents and data is stored, presented and exchanged in the wallet. Personal data used in the wallets is secure for transactions for both users and merchants.
The future cybersecurity certification scheme will standardise highly secure functioning of the wallets and be adopted by the EU Commission based on the ENISA scheme. All EUDI Wallets issued to citizens will be interoperable and secure across the EU.
The EUDI Wallets certification scheme must meet the European Digital Identity Framework (EDIF) requirements and integrate with the suite of solutions for EUDI Wallets discussed over the last few years.
