UL was founded as Underwriters’ Electrical Bureau over 120 years ago to test and certify the safety of products that connected people to a strange and invisible new power source. Formally known as Underwriters Laboratories, UL is now evolving that mission for the drivers of new online, virtual experiences.
“We’ve added security to our definition of safety, and thereby bringing elements of interoperability, reliability and privacy to our mission,” said Sajeev Jesudas, the company’s president of UL Consumer.
“In the virtual world, there’s no safety without security,” added Maarten Bron, UL Transaction Security’s director of innovation.
The transition is particularly timely, considering the connectivity embedded in most products already available, not to mention the promises of a true Internet of Things…
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