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The popular crypto hardware wallet Ledger Nano S by the French company Ledger, has received its first level security certificate (CPSN) from the French national cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) and the company shared its announcement today which we are reading more about in the latest cryptocurrency news.

The National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) issued reports to the Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security in order to be able to assist the Prime Minister of France in all of the matters related with the national security.

All of the products who aim to receive the first level certificate by going under multiple evaluations by the ANSSI lab by testing various attack scenarios that test the product’s security. Evaluations start from ‘’firewall identification, authentication and access, secure communications, and embedded software.’’

Ledger was among the first wallets that claimed its position on the crypto market by making clear how important is to have an independent third party certification that will attest the level of security of its offering and also explains that the CPSN means for Ledger Nano S a new beginning of an overall effort for further certifications of their products.

The blog post continues further to explain how Ledger operates in the same time with its own in-house security evaluation ‘’Attack Lab’’ which is named Ledger Donjon that provides a test for the products’ resilience for different threat scenarios.

The company also developed a brand new operating system dubbed BOLOS (Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System) in order to provide hardware and software strategies that enhance security. The CPSN certificate covers the core embedded security tools and operations including the random number generator which is created by using special software but in the same time being compliant with the security guidelines that are already established by the Security General Referential of France.

As previously reported by DC Forecasts, researches tried to hack the Ledger Nano S and allegedly claimed to have done it successfully by also attacking Ledger’s expensive wallet The Ledger Blue, but the company argued that the vulnerabilities were not critical.

At the start of February, Ledger apologized for the issues with the new firmware update for Nano S which led to the massive decrease in the storage capacity of the device.