Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering Handbook: The automotive engineer's roadmap to cyber-resilient vehicles

Accelerate your journey of securing safety-critical automotive systems through practical and standard-compliant methods

Key Features

• Understand ISO 21434 and UNECE regulations to ensure compliance and build cyber-resilient vehicles.
• Implement threat modeling and risk assessment techniques to identify and mitigate cyber threats.
• Integrate security into the automotive development lifecycle without compromising safety or efficiency.
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

The Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering Handbook introduces the critical technology of securing automotive systems, with a focus on compliance with industry standards like ISO 21434 and UNECE REG 155-156. This book provides automotive engineers and security professionals with the practical knowledge needed to integrate cybersecurity into their development processes, ensuring vehicles remain resilient against cyber threats. Whether you're a functional safety engineer, a software developer, or a security expert transitioning to the automotive domain, this book serves as your roadmap to implementing effective cybersecurity practices within automotive systems.

The purpose of this book is to demystify automotive cybersecurity and bridge the gap between safety-critical systems and cybersecurity requirements. It addresses the needs of professionals who are expected to make their systems secure without sacrificing time, quality, or safety. Unlike other resources, this book offers a practical, real-world approach, focusing on the integration of security into the engineering process, using existing frameworks and tools.

By the end of this book, readers will understand the importance of automotive cybersecurity, how to perform threat modeling, and how to deploy robust security controls at various layers of a vehicle's architecture.

What you will learn

• Understand automotive cybersecurity standards like ISO 21434 and UNECE REG 155-156.
• Apply threat modeling techniques to identify vulnerabilities in vehicle systems.
• Integrate cybersecurity practices into existing automotive development processes.
• Design secure firmware and software architectures for automotive ECUs.
• Perform risk analysis and prioritize cybersecurity controls for vehicle systems
• Implement cybersecurity measures at various vehicle architecture layers.

Who this book is for

This book is for automotive engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and those transitioning into automotive security, including those familiar with functional safety and looking to integrate cybersecurity into vehicle development processes.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the Vehicle Electrical/Electronic Architecture
2. Cybersecurity Basics for Automotive Use Cases
3. Threat Landscape against Vehicle Components
4. Exploring the Landscape of Automotive Cybersecurity Standards
5. Taking a Deep Dive into ISO/SAE21434
6. Interactions Between Functional Safety and Cybersecurity
7. A Practical Threat Modeling Approach for Automotive Systems
8. Vehicle-Level Security Controls
9. ECU-Level Security Controls

Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser is an automotive cybersecurity architect with a long experience in securing safety-critical systems. He started his career as a software engineer, building automotive network drivers, diagnostics protocols, and flash programming solutions. This naturally led him into the field of automotive cybersecurity, where he designed secure firmware solutions for various microcontrollers and SoCs, defined secure hardware and software architectures of embedded systems, and performed threat analysis of numerous vehicle architectures, ECUs, and smart sensors. Ahmad holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in Dearborn. He is currently a principal security architect for NVIDIA’s autonomous driving software platform.