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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)
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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

Secure manufacturing

The first set of technical cybersecurity controls deals with securing the manufacturing process both at the component and vehicle levels. This includes applying security controls for the process of installing firmware and software, provisioning critical security parameters (CSPs), and transitioning the component or vehicle into a secure production state. The goal of such controls is to ensure that the vehicle’s assets are protected from the start of production until the vehicle rolls off the production line. The usage of a secure key management infrastructure is fundamental to achieving these goals. This is enabled by hardware security modules (HSMs) deployed within the factory environment to generate secret keys that need to be provisioned into each vehicle. The HSM can also be used to sign software images and calibration sets before flashing vehicle ECUs. Wherever possible, the HSM should be leveraged to generate private/public key pairs and shared symmetric...