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SAVE – Securing Automated Vehicles – Japan-Germany

Hacking? Security? Connected vehicles? How about a holiday in Japan?

Security against cyber attacks is one of the greatest challenges in the development of modern vehicles. In the case of highly complex, autonomous vehicles, protection against such attacks is particularly relevant, as in the worst case scenario the health of the vehicle occupants and other road users can be endangered. Here, it must be ensured above all that integrated security measures function reliably and that no critical security gaps have been overlooked. The Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences is investigating how such safety tests can be carried out at an early stage of development and how to deal with any safety gaps that are found, as part of the SecForCARs project. The SAVE extension is also intended to establish and strengthen the exchange between Japanese and German researchers in the field of vehicle safety for connected and automated vehicles.

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences tests the IT security of networked, autonomous vehicles in cooperation with Japanese researchers

The joint project SAVE (Securing Automated Vehicles - Japan-Germany) consists of a consortium of research institutions and industrial partners from Japan and Germany and deals with the IT security of connected, autonomous vehicles. SAVE extends the SecForCARs (Security For Connected Autonomous caRs) project and aims to establish and strengthen an exchange between Japanese and German researchers in the field of vehicle security for connected and automated vehicles. In addition to this exchange, various security areas are also being investigated. In particular, the topics of threat intelligence, honeypots for vehicles, platform and hardware security as well as security composition for complex automotive systems of systems (SoS) are in the foreground.

Main Focus

Model-based security testing 
Vulnerability Management 
Exchange Japan and Germany

 

Contact

Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reiner Kriesten
Tel.: +49 (0)721 925-1423 
reiner.kriestenspam prevention@h-ka.de

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Working at HKA

While the first two topics are being researched by the Japanese side, the German partners are working on the latter. The Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences is focusing on increasing the reliability of networked, autonomous vehicles. One area concerns the verification and validation of vehicle security and deals with the model-based testing of the security of autonomous vehicles as a system of systems. A security test can be regarded as an attack on the vehicle, since both processes have the goal of violating security properties. The security tester achieves the detection of vulnerabilities, which can then be eliminated by the vehicle manufacturer. The attacker, on the other hand, wants to take advantage of the attack. In the worst case, this can endanger the occupants or the surrounding traffic. Security testing thus plays a major role in securing vehicles. Currently, however, tests only take place at the end of the product development process, when a vehicle is about to be delivered to the customer or is already in operation. This entails the risk that any vulnerabilities found can only be eliminated at great expense, which would lead to increased development costs. For this reason, security tests should take place in early phases of the development process in order to eliminate potential vulnerabilities as early as possible.

Key data

Type of project: Composite project of the BMBF
Duration of the project: 11/2020 - 06/2023
Project management: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reiner Kriesten
Doctor Edge Model-Based 
Security Testing:
Florian Sommer, M.Sc.
Research Associate Vulnerability 
Reporting System, 
Japan-Germany Exchange:
Robin Bolz, M.Sc.
Research Associate Vulnerability 
Database:
Ramy-Badr Ahmed, M.Sc.
Consortium:

Infineon Technologies AG (Coordinator) 
Fraunhofer IEM
Fraunhofer SIT
Freie Universität Berlin
ESCRYPT GmbH
University of Ulm
DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH (DED)
University of Karlsruhe

Funder: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

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