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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

This chapter explored the similarities and differences between safety and security engineering approaches, highlighting the importance of taking an integrated approach to these two disciplines. First, this chapter focused on the process impacts and the need to extend existing safety and quality processes to satisfy the cybersecurity engineering approach. We then discussed the unique areas of each domain, emphasizing the need to increase safety and security literacy to understand how safety engineering focuses on identifying and managing risks that prevent accidents, while security engineering focuses on identifying and mitigating threats that prevent intentional harm. Conflicts between safety and security can arise, and this chapter presented strategies for resolving these conflicts. Similarly, many areas of synergies were explored throughout the concept, design, implementation, and testing phases. Several examples were shown in which safety reinforces the security properties...