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The most influential trend in the automotive industry currently is the topic of Software-defined-Vehicles (SdV). However, more and more software in the car not only opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities. The focus for more software inside the cars also comes in with a multitude of new interfaces and potential points of attack and vulnerabilities. With this the danger of cyber attacks is increasingly present on the road of today and tomorrow.
In order to accommodate this and realize the potential of SdV with as little risk as possible, numerous methods and precautions are already being taken to protect cars from internal and external cyberattacks. Some of these requirements have already been defined by UN R155 as prescribed regulations and the ISO 21434 is based on this. These standards not only force OEMs and Tier 1s to implement cybersecurity testing independently in their test strategy, but also call on automotive cybersecurity companies with expertise in cybersecurity testing and thus provide great added value for many car manufacturers and suppliers.
ADAS/AD functions in particular, where a large number of sensors and recording devices with high data rates, modern E/E architectures and high bandwidths are common, require sophisticated and high-performance test systems. These are extremely expensive, especially for larger systems and require a huge amount of time and resources.
To precisely counteract this effort, the solution package for (automotive) cybersecurity testing by dSPACE offers a remedy. By implementing cybersecurity testing tools from various cybersecurity companies (e.g. Argus Cybersecurity, achelos GmbH, Autocrypt, …) in existing toolchains and test setups, many tests and methods can be frontloaded and covered without additional effort. Cybersecurity testing as software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) level not only offers advantages in resource management, but also enables integration in the cloud and thus scaling and reproduction of test protocols.
With access to bus and network communication via SIL and HIL of the dSPACE toolchain, a wide range of reproducible attacks can be simulated. This enables a wide range of test procedures: conformance testing, fuzz testing, penetration testing and many others. In addition, the entire dSPACE product portfolio supports security protocols such as MACsec, IPsec, TLS and SecOC. In order to provide OEMs and Tier 1s not only with functional test setups and product solutions in the field of cybersecurity, dSPACE also offers consulting services to meet the upcoming challenges of vehicle and cybersecurity validations.
