When you think of securing your car, what’s the first thing that springs to mind? For most of us, this step probably involves making sure the windows are closed, the door is locked and you’ve hidden any valuable items. However, we’re living in a world now where most of the items surrounding us are ‘smart’ – they operate autonomously, respond when we talk to them and even predict our behaviour. That includes our cars. The safety of our cars no longer rests solely on you – the driver or keeper of the keys – but now also on the engineers producing the software of the internal computer.
“It’s not just the ‘traditional’ automotive companies producing cars anymore,” explains head of the Critical and Extreme Security and Dependability research group ( at SnT, CritiX. “There has been a transition where people have realised that cars are now IT products, and so IT companies are realising that they can do it too,” he continues. It’s this technological transition that has initiated a partner project between CritiX and global IT provider ), who joined Prof. Marcus . VölpHuaweiSnT’s Partnership Programme in 2020
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