Automotive Cyber Security 

Security Audit Service of Connected Cars

The modern vehicles are progressively becoming more complex. In addition to having an electric PWT, the advanced electronic and the network technologies are coming to be more common on vehicles.

Now almost every aspect of the vehicle is governed by an electronic device. The more this transformation goes on, the more the public needs to be reassured of the safety and lack of damage of these components.

For these reasons safety is crucial, as it is in other sector; ICT traditional systems won’t work on vehicle of this complexity.

The industry needs to rely on a trustworthy partner that can help OEM and supplier to protect the data integrity of the vehicle, to detect on-going cyber attacks and react to them in a safe way. This must be guaranteed from the beginning to the end of the full development cycle of the vehicle.

Cyber security in the Automotive field is about the protection of all the important elements in the vehicle from the treats of cyber attacks: all of this can be assured by performing a cyber security assessment, necessary to analyze the dangers and to evaluate the risks associated to the exposure of the connected-car to the internet.

Best Practice

IMQ Group, European leader in the conformity assessment sector, understands the advantages of a good best practice in dealing with these challenges. For these reasons, allowed IMQ to develop an holistic approach that includes treats and risks analysis and functional and technical safety.

Automotive Cyber Security

The activities of Automotive Cyber Security offered by IMQ, a Group Company, on on-board internet systems of the new connected car have in common the aim to contribute to the client a detailed knowledge on the safety status of their IT systems.

Which is the best approach for automotive cyber security?

IMQ Minded Security, a recently acquired company of the IMQ Group, can guide you through all phases of the secure vehicle development life cycle, with the aim of complying with the new IT security standards.

The security services for the automotive sector offered by the IMQ Group include the following:

• Architecture Threat Modeling - IMQ Minded Security can support businesses in reviewing the Architecture, evaluating the threat modelling assessment.
• Secure Design - reviewing Design activity of software components in order to identify design flaws that can be used to attack the application logic.
• Secure Requirements - guiding principles for a safe development for all the framework used during the software creation.
• Secure Assessment - safety assessment regarding the activity of Penetration testing, Runtime analysis and fuzz testing, Manual Secure Code Review and Mobile Security Assessment.
• Fixing support - to guarantee an effective implementation of countermeasures to identified vulnerabilities.
• Training in order to improve the company safety knowledge, mandatory to create always safer software.