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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

Supporting standards and resources

The remaining part of this chapter focuses on standards and resources that are useful but not mandatory. Organizations are encouraged to maintain a list of such resources to raise awareness among security practitioners and stay up to date on the latest publications of security best practices.

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

MITRE compiles a list of software and hardware security weaknesses based on vulnerabilities that are periodically filed in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) [72]. These weaknesses are grouped into classes for ease of searching. Every year, MITRE publishes the Top 25 CWEs [42] based on the vulnerabilities reported throughout the year:

Figure 4.9 – Snapshot of the Top 25 CWEs from 2022

Figure 4.9 – Snapshot of the Top 25 CWEs from 2022

As shown in Figure 4.9, CWE-787 remains in the Top 25 CWEs as the most common root cause of memory safety vulnerabilities that produce out-of-bound writes. Being aware of the Top 25 CWEs as...