Now Your Car is a Cybersecurity Risk, Too

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www.eetimes.com, May. 21, 2021 – 

The automotive industry started taking cybersecurity seriously about six years ago and started investing in designing and deploying cybersecurity solutions. The auto industry is now deploying cybersecurity hardware and software, but there is a long road ahead to get every ECU in the car protected against increasingly cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity in the auto industry is much more complex than smartphones and PCs for two main reasons:

1. The dozens of ECUs in each vehicle connected via multiple electronic buses with different speeds and characteristics, and 2. the multiple potential in-car and remote access points such as OBDII, USB and SD ports, keyless entry, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, embedded modem, sensors, infotainment or smartphone apps and the multiple connections via telematics and other cloud systems that access car systems.

The good news is that there is a growing number of automotive cybersecurity activities to create in-vehicle hardware and software and cybersecurity cloud platforms. Several cybersecurity standard and regulation are emerging, which will further increase the momentum to deploy cybersecurity solutions in all connected vehicles.

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