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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

Creating synergies in the concept phase

The concept phase is where the security analysis begins. The aim is to map out the threats and choose the correct risk treatment decisions. As a result, a set of cybersecurity goals, claims, and requirements is produced. In this section, we will see how various security work products in the scope of the concept phase can be enhanced by considering inputs from the safety analysis, as well as the safety concept.

Item functions

As we saw earlier, the first step in performing a TARA in the concept phase is to define the item by listing its functions, the boundary at which those functions interact with the rest of the vehicle, and the environment in which the item operates. When performing a TARA for a safety-relevant system, many of the safety artifacts can be easily leveraged or adapted for security analysis.

The functions of the item serve as a valuable resource for grasping its objectives. Understanding the objectives of the system is...