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UK PSTI Act and Regulations: urgent compliance steps by 29 April 2024 for connectable products—password bans, vulnerability disclosure programmes, support-period publication, statements of compliance, and importer/distributor duties

Published on: 13 February 2024

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Manufacturers of 'smart' products placed on the UK market are set to shoulder a sizeable administrative workload and technical obstacles to satisfy new cybersecurity obligations due to commence in under three months, with parallel duties extending to importers and distributors, according to cybersecurity adviser, Bluman. Bluman made the remarks in advance of the PSTI regulations 2023 coming into force on 29 April 2024. The UK government is empowered to impose the regulations under the PSTI Act 2022. It has recently written to industry to highlight the looming compliance date and to publicise guidance issued to support those efforts. The regulations set out granular security standards for 'relevant connectable products'—a label covering a broad range of internet-connectable and network-connectable items, including 'internet of things' devices and software. The regime, among other measures, effectively prohibits universal default passwords on in-scope products, requires the operation of a monitored, published vulnerability reporting programme, and introduces a suite of record-keeping and disclosure duties— including a requirement on manufacturers to state clearly at the point of sale how long they will provide security vulnerability patching for...

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