PD CEN/TR 16670:2014

What is PD CEN/TR 16670 - RFID threat and vulnerability analysis about?  

PD CEN/TR 16670 is to consider the threats and vulnerabilities associated with specific characteristics of RFID technology in a system comprising: 

• The air interface protocol covering all the common frequencies 
• The tag including model variants within a technology 
• The interrogator features for processing the air interface 
• The interrogator interface to the application 

PD CEN/TR 16670 addresses specific RFID technologies as defined by their air interface specifications. The threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigating methods are presented as a toolkit, enabling the specific characteristics of the RFID technology being used in an application to be taken into consideration. While the focus is on specifications that are standardized, the feature analysis can also be applied to proprietary RFID technologies. 

Note: This should be possible because some features are common to more than one standardized technology, and it should be possible to map these to proprietary technologies. 

Who is PD CEN/TR 16670 - RFID threat and vulnerability analysis for?  

PD CEN/TR 16670 on RFID threat and vulnerability analysis is useful for: 

• IT companies  
• Regulatory authorities of RFID  
• Commercial areas  
• Workplaces  
• Healthcare  
• Data protection department   
• Privacy and security department  

Why should you use PD CEN/TR 16670 - RFID threat and vulnerability analysis?  

RFID provides the basic legal framework safeguarding fundamental values such as health, environment, data protection, privacy and security. 

PD CEN/TR 16670 contains information on RFID applications that will assist in providing access to the source designated on the sign where the RFID application is in use. 

Overall, PD CEN/TR 16670 RFID system integrators can be used to improve security by using a privacy-by-design approach.