Category: Automotive Security

January 31, 2023

Who pays? Examining the costs of automotive cybersecurity and related standards

During its two-year participation in Secure-CAV (a project focusing on advanced cybersecurity for connected and autonomous vehicles) Copper Horse had the opportunity to examine the automotive cybersecurity standards landscape. One of the subsequent outputs based on this work was a living list – published to...

Automotive Security

January 12, 2022

Automotive cybersecurity standards – a living list

Last updated, January 2022 This is the home of our automotive cybersecurity standards living list. As mentioned in our Overview of the automotive cybersecurity standards landscape, we have identified a long list of documents either supporting or directly related to automotive cybersecurity, which can be broadly classified into...

Automotive Security

January 12, 2022

An overview of the automotive cybersecurity standards landscape

The advent of numerous wireless connections and telemetry services has extended the attack surface of a modern vehicle far beyond its physical boundary. What’s more, as automakers strive to meet the expectations of a fully autonomous driving experience, future cars will need to rely even more heavily on the data around...

Automotive Security

October 25, 2021

Secure-CAV whitepaper: Addressing the challenges of securing connected and autonomous vehicles

Over the summer, Siemens commissioned Copper Horse to write a whitepaper that captured the key themes of the Secure-CAV project and gave readers a headstart in navigating the status of automotive cyber security as well as a glimpse at its future. Executive Summary Vehicles are...

Automotive Security

March 3, 2020

Automotive threat modelling: off-the-shelf solutions

The availability of commercial tools primed with domain-specific knowledge illustrates how threat modelling has begun to focus on the needs of Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs. James Tyrrell shines a light on the use of off-the-shelf solutions and identifies opportunities for collaboration across the automotive threat modelling community.

Automotive Security

January 21, 2020

Threat modelling connected and autonomous vehicle cybersecurity: an overview of available tools

Automotive industry standards recommend threat modelling as a key element in strengthening the cybersecurity of road vehicles. In the second in our series of automotive blog posts, James Tyrrell provides an overview of available tools from simple drawing and flow-charting applications through to more automated threat-generation solutions with built-in libraries and templating options.

Automotive Security

January 9, 2020

Computers on wheels and networks in the fast lane

CAN bus, LIN, MOST, FlexRay and automotive Ethernet – what are the sweet spots for in-vehicle communications and how do the different components fit together?

Automotive Security

April 3, 2018

Vehicle Communications and the Road to Driverless Automotive

Copper Horse’s Development Lead, Mark Neve discusses technology being deployed in the vehicle comms space. The car of tomorrow is going to be communicating with many different things and not just for passenger entertainment. The field of Vehicle-to-“X” communications is growing considerably. The X...

Automotive Security

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