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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)
1
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

Part 3: Executing the Process to Engineer a Secure Automotive Product

In this part, we shift into the practical aspects by building on top of what we have learned in the prior chapters to make the vehicle secure. First, we go through the threat modeling approach to understand how to perform an effective TARA that uncovers all threats relevant to our product. Then, we explore technical cybersecurity controls that can be applied at the vehicle architectural layers. Finally, we dive into the ECU hardware and software architecture to highlight technical cybersecurity controls that can be applied at those layers as well.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 7, A Practical Threat Modeling Approach for Automotive Systems
  • Chapter 8, Vehicle-Level Security Controls
  • Chapter 9, ECU-Level Security Controls