Automotive Diagnostics: Threat or a boon for cybersecurity
2022-01-0139
03/29/2022
- Content
- The Automotive industry went through a revolution of all sorts with the addition of a lot of electronic components in the vehicles subsequently increasing dependency on the software that these components carried on them. With large number of vehicles sold out in 90’s the service stations became burdened with providing quick and efficient service, and the competing OEMs lead to advancement of the way production and servicing of the vehicles were handled. As in any complex system where diverse components interact with each other the problems of such interactions multiplied causing diagnostics to become lean and efficient so that they can be diagnosed and fixed quickly. These diagnostics resulted in many open interfaces which could control mechanical parts without the intervention of driver with the help of a diagnostic tester. These open interfaces allowed hackers to exploit them for malicious purposes thus triggering cybersecurity protocols to be pulled in for these interfaces during manufacturing and servicing of the vehicles. This paper describes the open interfaces and the possible measure taken to prevent hackers from gaining access to such interfaces.
- Citation
- Prakash, V., "Automotive Diagnostics: Threat or a boon for cybersecurity," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-0139, 2022, .