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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

Secondary standards

While the primary standards may provide a holistic framework for engineering secure automotive products, they rely on secondary and supporting standards to address specific technical areas of the engineering life cycle. Awareness of such standards is necessary to judge whether they apply to your organization or product offering.

IATF 16949:2016

Developing automotive products within the framework of a quality management system (QMS) serves as a prerequisite to achieving product security. ISO/SAE 21434 makes adherence to a QMS a requirement, which is reasonable considering the difficulty of arguing that a product is secure while not being able to demonstrate its quality [9]. For example, software developed outside a QMS is expected to contain more bugs due to the lack of formal quality checks, such as code reviews and software tests. A percentage of those software bugs are likely exploitable by an attacker. Without the help of a QMS, we are unable to manage...