Step on It: What to Know About TISAX Compliance in the Automotive Market

Step on It: What to Know About TISAX Compliance in the Automotive Market

The automotive industry is one of the largest in the world, with sales estimated at $2.95 trillion for 2022. It’s also an industry undergoing profound change thanks to global supply chains and digital transformation — which means that the security and compliance demands for the auto industry are undergoing profound change, too.


Let’s start with the technology changes alone. Those changes are being driven (no pun intended) by the rise of autonomous driving, in-vehicle connectivity, and electric vehicles. They are fundamental shifts in how cars work, with far more of a vehicle’s operations depending on data, software, and technology. 


There’s the rise of the global supply chain. Large auto manufacturers now routinely have thousands of suppliers and assembly plants scattered around the world; that exposes the manufacturer to even more compliance risks, as you need to assess the security of all those suppliers feeding into the world’s next-generation vehicles and share an enormous amount of data with them.


The auto industry knows all this, and knows it needs a robust solution that can serve the whole industry. So let’s talk about what that solution looks like: TISAX, the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange.


Defining the TISAX Framework


Broadly speaking, TISAX is an information security framework tailored for the automotive industry. It allows participants in the auto sector to achieve a recognized standard of information security, so that they can be trusted members of the global auto supply chain. TISAX also allows companies to assess the security of others in the supply chain, before exchanging confidential information with those parties.


In that sense, TISAX is an industry-specific compliance framework like many others: PCI DSS for retailers exchanging credit card data;
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