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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

Cybersecurity Basics for Automotive Use Cases

In Chapter 1, we peered into the vehicle E/E architecture layer by layer to understand its layout, interfaces, networks, and various electronic components. While doing so, we got a glimpse of the objects of value that needed protection and some of the adverse consequences of successful attacks. In this chapter, we will review some fundamental security concepts, methods, and principles that are especially applicable to automotive use cases. Building this foundation is a prerequisite for the later chapters, where we will explore vehicle threats, the methodology for treating them, and the technical cybersecurity controls to mitigate them.

If you are skilled in the art of general cybersecurity, this chapter will give you an automotive perspective on how to apply the security fundamentals to automotive use cases. If you’re not, this chapter should be treated as a crash course in cybersecurity to enable future learning. Rather than...