We took part last 16 March in the “Functional Safety & Cybersecurity” workshop organized by CEN and CENELEC in Brussels, with a keynote speech on the SMEs’ particular perspective on information security and data protection. The workshop promoted the private sector engagement with standardization organizations and highlighted how SDOs can help in the domains of cybersecurity, safety and data protection (domains more and more entangled with the current trends towards universal connectedness and the “Internet of Things”.