# PSS – Product Safety and Security

- Web page: https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss/

- [PSS-01 Guidelines and Recommendations for Cloud Service Customers](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-01/index.html.md): 5 sub-criteria (4 basic, 1 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-02 Identification of Vulnerabilities of the Cloud Service](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-02/index.html.md): 4 sub-criteria (3 basic, 1 additional), changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-03 Informing Customers about Known Vulnerabilities](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-03/index.html.md): 7 sub-criteria (5 basic, 2 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-04 Error handling and Logging Mechanisms](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-04/index.html.md): 7 sub-criteria (6 basic, 1 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-05 Authentication Mechanisms](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-05/index.html.md): 3 sub-criteria (2 basic, 1 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-06 Session Management](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-06/index.html.md): 2 sub-criteria (2 basic), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-07 Confidentiality of Authentication Information](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-07/index.html.md): 3 sub-criteria (3 basic), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-08 Roles and Rights Framework](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-08/index.html.md): 4 sub-criteria (4 basic), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-09 Authorisation Mechanisms](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-09/index.html.md): 4 sub-criteria (3 basic, 1 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-10 Software Defined Networking](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-10/index.html.md): 2 sub-criteria (2 basic), with customer criteria, unchanged since C5:2020
- [PSS-11 Images for Virtual Machines and Containers](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-11/index.html.md): 3 sub-criteria (1 basic, 2 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020
- [PSS-12 Region of Data Processing and Storage](https://c5.patrickscheid.de/en/pss-12/index.html.md): 8 sub-criteria (4 basic, 4 additional), with customer criteria, changed since C5:2020

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Source: BSI C5:2026, machine-readable edition v1.0.1, © Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) 2026, reproduced unchanged under CC BY-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). Change notes: BSI C5:2026 Changelog, © BSI 2026, CC BY-ND 4.0. Unofficial presentation, not affiliated with BSI.