Standardizing Cybersecurity in Autonomous Vehicles

The automotive industry is adopting advanced technologies like autonomy and the Internet of Things (IoT) rapidly, leading it into a future of intelligent autonomous vehicles. These technologies are fostering innovation in the connected and autonomous vehicles industry, leading to limitless possibilities. Although the emerging possibilities seem unlimited, new threats and vulnerabilities arise. As the vehicles become more and more autonomous and connected, risks of cyberattacks on the vehicles also grow rapidly.

While the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) started to create their protection strategies to prevent such attacks, they were not uniform and often not controlled enough to ensure compliance from the suppliers.

Thus, to ensure an industry-wide implementation of standards & regulations, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) defined the Cyber Security Management System (CSMS) and made its adoption mandatory to receive approval for a specific vehicle. The CSMS accompanying document extensively refers to ISO-21434 "Road vehicles - cybersecurity engineering", making it extremely important for OEMs, suppliers, and other associated entities to formulate adherence strategies.

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