The Ever Changing Landscape of Automotive Cybersecurity-Will There Be a Limit?

Automotive cybersecurity is much more than ISO/SAE 21434, ECE regulations R-155, R-156, and other similar standards and regulations. The ever increasing complexity of the automotive environment is already causing serious issues in the design of attack protection mechanisms for a vehicle from a security perspective. One example is securing a thermal management system such as those used for battery management systems where several suppliers are involved in addition to an OEM encompassing a multitude of ECUs and heterogeneous arrays of sensors and actuators. One issue here is that an Item in the context of ISO/SAE 21434 has become very complex involving not just one sub-system but a multitude of sub-systems developed by different suppliers. Another issue is the accurate determination of responsibilities of each supplier for implementing ISO/SAE 21434. Another example of complexity is the electrical vehicle charging system for electric vehicles.

In this webinar, the current complexity of modern vehicle components will be explained, a number of cybersecurity issues will be identified and possible approaches to address the corresponding issues will be discussed.

Speaker

Dr.Juan Pimentel

Juan Pimentel - Principal Cyber Security Consultant • Omnex Inc. Juan Pimentel, Omnex principal Cyber Security consultant. He is a member of the US technical Advisory Group for ISO 21448 and writer of the standard. He has extensive Engineering, Safety and Cybersecurity experience. He is also the author of many papers on the safety and security of automotive systems ranging from drive-by-wire systems to ADAS to automated vehicles. He has developed and conducted professional training courses on safeguarding process control systems, safety instrumented systems (SIS), protecting industrial systems including relevant standards (IEC 61508, IEC 61511, and ISO 26262)