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Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering Handbook

By : Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser
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Book Image

Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering Handbook

5 (1)
By: Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser

Overview of this book

Replete with exciting challenges, automotive cybersecurity is an emerging domain, and cybersecurity is a foundational enabler for current and future connected vehicle features. This book addresses the severe talent shortage faced by the industry in meeting the demand for building cyber-resilient systems by consolidating practical topics on securing automotive systems to help automotive engineers gain a competitive edge. The book begins by exploring present and future automotive vehicle architectures, along with relevant threats and the skills essential to addressing them. You’ll then explore cybersecurity engineering methods, focusing on compliance with existing automotive standards while making the process advantageous. The chapters are designed in a way to help you with both the theory and practice of building secure systems while considering the cost, time, and resource limitations of automotive engineering. The concluding chapters take a practical approach to threat modeling automotive systems and teach you how to implement security controls across different vehicle architecture layers. By the end of this book, you'll have learned effective methods of handling cybersecurity risks in any automotive product, from single libraries to entire vehicle architectures.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:Understanding the Cybersecurity Relevance of the Vehicle Electrical Architecture
5
Part 2: Understanding the Secure Engineering Development Process
9
Part 3: Executing the Process to Engineer a Secure Automotive Product

Part 1:Understanding the Cybersecurity Relevance of the Vehicle Electrical Architecture

In the first part of the book, we aim to understand the cybersecurity relevance of vehicle electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures to gain perspective on how such systems can become vulnerable to attacks and the relevant threats that apply. After walking through the evolution of vehicle E/E architecture, we introduce basic cybersecurity concepts that will aid us in later chapters when we perform security analysis and derive security controls. We end the first part of the book by surveying the threat landscape to give us a clear idea of the security problem that lies ahead.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Introducing the Vehicle Electrical/Electronic Architecture
  • Chapter 2, Cybersecurity Basics for Automotive Use Cases
  • Chapter 3, Threat Landscape against Vehicle Components