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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

Summary

In conclusion, understanding and implementing automotive cybersecurity standards is not merely a regulatory requirement but a cornerstone of building cyber-resilient automotive systems. In this chapter, we classified standards into three main categories: primary, secondary, and supporting, to provide a holistic view of the compliance layers. While primary standards form the backbone and are often mandated, secondary and supporting standards play an important role in implementing a robust cybersecurity management system. They also serve as useful resources in understanding security weaknesses and security best practices and offer general guidance for developing secure automotive systems and their supporting infrastructure. Furthermore, compliance with these standards ensures an orderly, process-driven approach that fortifies each stage of the vehicle life cycle, from development to operation. Given the fact that the landscape of automotive cybersecurity is in constant flux,...