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04.05.2026 14:37
No Extra Blind Belief in Software program
No Extra Blind Belief in Software program
3S goals to make software program safety clear, measurable, and comparable for finish customers
On April 28, 2026, the Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) revealed the decision for proposals for the “Software program Safety Rating (3S)” analysis program. This system’s goal is to make software program safety clear, measurable, and comparable. A digital partnering occasion held within the run-up to the decision had already generated important curiosity and demonstrated that there’s a excessive demand in academia and trade for viable options for the systematic analysis of software program safety.
With the revealed name for proposals, the Cyberagentur is transferring the “Software program Safety Rating (3S)” analysis program into its subsequent section. events from academia, trade, and the startup ecosystem can apply to take part by June 11, 2026.
3S goals to maneuver software program safety away from the realm of summary high quality seals and particular person standards which are tough to match, and to translate it right into a understandable, reproducible, and broadly relevant analysis framework. The main focus is on growing a novel metric that may permit security-relevant properties of software program to be systematically captured and consolidated right into a understandable rating. The objective is to make sure that software program safety is not described solely in remoted cases or symbolically, however quite made topic to differentiated and efficient analysis.
The background to the analysis program is the rising pervasiveness of software program in on a regular basis life. Whether or not in banking functions, cell companies, or related gadgets within the dwelling atmosphere: for customers, it typically stays unclear how safe an software really is. This lack of transparency complicates decision-making in addition to the enforcement of end-users’ professional pursuits. 3S addresses exactly this vulnerability and goals to make safety a extra tangible, verifiable property of digital merchandise and to contextualize it in relation to the meant use case.
The underlying idea of safety is intentionally broader than in lots of present certification and labeling approaches. On this analysis program, safety isn’t understood as a static state, however as a dynamic course of that arises from the utilization context, system atmosphere, interplay with different software program and {hardware}, and your complete lifecycle of a product. The deliberate Software program Safety Rating should consolidate these components in a approach that’s each technically strong and adaptable to completely different software contexts. Moreover, it’s meant that components of the evaluation be understandable or verifiable by customers themselves.
This system’s disruptive potential lies in overcoming binary safety logics. Whereas typical seals and certificates typically permit solely restricted statements, 3S is meant to allow a graded, clear, and strong classification of software program safety. This not solely offers customers with higher readability but in addition serves as a strategic impetus for producers to combine safety into growth processes earlier, extra systematically, and in a extra clear method.
Even previous to the decision for proposals, the Cyberagentur had held a digital partnering occasion on February 5, 2026. The occasion had met with a fantastic response. Researchers, corporations, startups, and different stakeholders from academia and trade had taken the chance to trade views at an early stage on this system’s aims, key focus areas, and framework circumstances. On the identical time, the occasion served to facilitate structured networking amongst potential contributors and to provoke potential bidding consortia. The excessive degree of curiosity underscored that there’s a important want for brand spanking new, scientifically sound strategies for evaluating software program safety and that there’s broad-based willingness to implement such approaches in observe.
“With 3S, we addressed a central structural downside within the digital society: software program safety has to this point been largely opaque to many customers, typically insufficiently comparable for producers, and solely limitedly representable available in the market. The verifiability of the rating is predicated on a seamless chain of custody that paperwork all underlying information, evaluation processes, and analysis steps in a traceable and verifiable method. The numerous curiosity even previous to the decision for proposals clearly demonstrated that there’s an infinite want for a sturdy, quantitatively comparable analysis—and that, on the identical time, there’s a excessive degree of willingness to translate such approaches into concrete technical options,” mentioned Lars-Martin Knabe, Analysis Officer for a Safe Society on the Cyberagentur.
With this name for proposals, the Cyberagentur supplied additional impetus for analysis on the intersection of technological excellence, digital sovereignty, and sensible applicability. The 3S analysis program was meant to contribute not solely to a greater understanding of software program safety but in addition to creating it simpler, clear, and comparable in on a regular basis digital life.
The decision for proposals was revealed on e-Vergabe beneath contract discover quantity CAEU-WD/2026-015 (https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdetails.html?0&id=855455). The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. analysis establishments, corporations, and startups can categorical their curiosity in collaborating instantly. Participation is feasible each individually and as a part of a consortium.
Additional info:
https://www.cyberagentur.de/programme/3s
https://www.cyberagentur.de/presse/sicherheitsluecken-wachsen-schneller-als-der-…
Contact:
Company for Innovation in Cybersecurity GmbH
Große Steinstraße 19
06108 Halle (Saale)
Michael Lindner
Press Officer
Cellphone: +49 151 44150 645
Electronic mail:presse@cyberagentur.de
Background: Cyberagentur
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) was based in 2020 by the German Federal Authorities as an entirely owned in-house entity of the German Federal Authorities beneath the joint management of the German Federal Ministry of Defence and the German Federal Ministry of the Inside and Group, with the goal of adopting an application-strategy-oriented and interministerial perspective on inside and exterior safety within the discipline of cybersecurity. In opposition to this backdrop, the work of the Cyberagentur is primarily aimed on the institutionalized implementation of extremely modern initiatives that carry a excessive threat with regard to attaining their aims however, on the identical time, have the potential to trigger important disruption if profitable.
The Cyberagentur is an integral a part of the Nationwide Safety Technique of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Cyberagentur is led by Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert as Scientific Director and Bettina Bubnys as Industrial Director.
Wissenschaftliche Ansprechpartner:
Lars-Martin Knabe, Analysis Officer Reliable technical worth chains
Originalpublikation:
https://www.cyberagentur.de/en/press/schluss-mit-blindem-softwarevertrauen/
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https://www.cyberagentur.de/en/programs/3s/
https://www.cyberagentur.de/en/press/sicherheitsluecken-wachsen-schneller-als-de…
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