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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

Planning

It may sound trivial, but preparing a cybersecurity plan is essential to guide teams on the overall required work that must be executed before the product is considered ready for release. The cybersecurity plan covers assigning cybersecurity roles and responsibilities, cross-relations to the project and safety plans, the cybersecurity activities that must be completed, tailoring any activities, rationale for reuse, and handling off-the-shelf components, as well as components out of context. Teams can leverage existing project plans and simply extend them to account for cybersecurity activities. Alternatively, a dedicated cybersecurity plan can be prepared to capture the cybersecurity activities. ISO/SAE 21434 requires that at least the concept phase, product development phase, validation phase, and Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) activities are described in the cybersecurity plan. However, it can be useful to cover additional aspects, such as planning cybersecurity...