Security has become part and parcel of our world and thus an important skill of embedded systems engineers. That is why the Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) course has set up the new subject ‘security’ in collaboration with the National Digital Infrastructure Inspectorate (RDI).

In that course, students perform an assessment on an Internet of Things (IoT) device of their choice in the way RDI does. The students use European standards in the process. A fun assignment that they may later encounter as professionals in their field.

On Friday, 25 May, 2nd-year ESE students and their lectures visited the Rijksinspectie Digitale infrastructuur (RDI) in Amersfoort, concluding the first series of security lessons.

The students attended workshops and received demonstrations from RDI’s practice. In a Q&A, the students discussed the results with the RDI’s expert panel.

All participants in the security classes have indicated that this tastes like more. Therefore, from now on, no ESE project will be realised by the students without including security.

Brilliant that ESE education at HAN is able to adapt so quickly to its own set in professional practice!

About the RDI

The RDI is the organisation in the Netherlands that oversees the use of CE marking and cyber security of equipment sold in our country. An example of the RDI’s work is monitoring weaknesses in inverters of solar panel installations that can be hacked and disrupt our energy supply. Something that could affect us all.

Source and photography: HAN, Remko Welling