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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
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Part 2: Understanding the Secure Engineering Development Process
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Part 3: Executing the Process to Engineer a Secure Automotive Product

Case study using a digital video recorder (DVR)

Let’s assume that you have been given the task of performing a TARA for a video recording function in an ADAS system that continuously records video data to capture a 20-second window around the time an automatic emergency braking (AEB) event is triggered. The recording is then made available for an external client to download either through the USB interface or the telematics unit. This is needed to analyze the event details and determine responsibility in the case of a crash. Your task is to identify high-risk threat scenarios related to this feature and define the necessary risk treatment decisions. Let’s walk through the steps of applying the practical TARA approach to this use case.

Note

The following analysis is an abridged version of a full TARA and is not meant to be comprehensive.

Before we begin, it helps to capture the use case details in a table format, as shown here. The more details we capture about...