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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

Host-based intrusion detection

Even with state-of-the-art security controls, the OEM has no visibility of how effective those controls are during normal operation. Indeed, some controls may start out being quite effective yet diminish in strength over time as attackers’ abilities and tools increase in sophistication. Therefore, a security strategy that relies only on preventive security controls is incomplete unless complemented by attack detection mechanisms. Building anomaly detection systems in the vehicle accompanied by a backend security operation center (SOC) enables an OEM to bridge that gap and gain real-time perspective about the level of threats that the entire vehicle fleet is experiencing. This further enables the OEM to react promptly after an incident is detected when patching vulnerabilities is needed. With the distributed E/E architecture, no single ECU can know about all security events in the vehicle, so the host-based intrusion detection system (IDS) itself...