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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

Cryptography applied to automotive use cases

The study of mathematical procedures that process or alter data to conceal and authenticate information and its sources is known as cryptography. The field has had a fascinating past with a decisive influence in protecting national secrets during critical periods of world history. The great advances in Information Technology (IT) called for stronger cryptographic methods as an enabling technology for greater connectivity and information sharing. More recently, cryptography has gained an added sense of allure due to the rise of cryptocurrency, which has garnered the attention of millions of people from all walks of life. In this section, we will try to demystify some of the basic concepts of cryptography and show how to apply them to common automotive use cases to achieve some of the security objectives presented earlier in this chapter. This section is meant to give you an introduction to important concepts that should make it easier for...