Reliance on electronic equipment for steering, accelerating and decelerating vehicles is increasing, and the protection of cyber attacks becomes more and more important.
Vehicles have a variety of communication interfaces and more and more automation functions, such as vehicle distance and lane maintenance assistance systems. At the same time, the automotive industry is also trying to create fully connected and automated vehicles. Its electronic architecture and current vehicles will have great The difference: It is necessary to record a larger amount of data, and perform reliable calculations in a very short time, and it will be designed to directly control all driving functions. Therefore, the need for security protection is also greatly increased.
Unlike previous research projects on automotive IT security, SecForCARs focuses on self-driving. Connected cars offer many advantages in autopilot, for example, by warning each other against road damage or icing to improve safety. However, vehicle-mounted electronic devices are also It must be able to defend against external attacks. To this end, plan members will jointly explore and evaluate innovative mechanisms.
The SecForCARs program looks at a wide range of issues: How to develop safer networking and self-driving? How to test the security vulnerabilities of these vehicles? How to ensure that car manufacturers and technology partners can eliminate the vulnerabilities as soon as they are found?
This project brings together experts in IT security and automated driving. Participating automakers package Volkswagen AG and AUDI AG. Infineon Technologies AG and Robert Bosch (Robert Bosch GmbH) is the representative. ESCRYPT GmbH, Itemis AG, Mixed Mode GmbH, SCHUTZWERK GmbH represents the tool manufacturer and the security industry. Research institutions and universities will ensure that the latest research results will be provided to the project, including Ulm (Ulm University, Braunschweig and Munich University of Technology, Free University of Berlin, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Fraunhofer Academy AISEC and IEM. SecForCARs program will continue until 2021 March.