Panasonic Corporation and Trend Micro Incorporated have just announced a partnership to develop a cybersecurity solution aimed at detecting and preventing cyberattacks against autonomous and connected cars.
The mission is to make these cars have excellent safety. To this end, the companies will develop a solution to detect and prevent intrusions in Electronic Control Units (or Electronic Control Units – ECUs*) that are responsible for driving behaviors, such as acceleration, steering and braking, as well as in vehicle infotainment systems. (or in-vehicle infotainment – IVI which include navigation systems and telematics devices**.
New security vulnerabilities are found every day and prove that the risk of hackers taking remote control of steering and braking systems in connected cars is real. Therefore, in the current scenario, it is essential to implement safety measures in all vehicles. Likewise, it is equally important to analyze new attacks by constantly monitoring the cloud-connected car systems. Through these surveys, it is possible to use the results to implement measures to prevent cyberattacks.
The partnership will feature intrusion detection and prevention technology from Panasonic's Control Area Network (CAN) and Trend Micro IoT Security. Panasonic's technology will allow the detection of any unauthorized commands sent to the ECUs that control the vehicle's steering.
While Trend Micro IoT Security*5, which leverages Trend Micro's global security intelligence and expertise, such as malware analysis*6, will be deployed on IVI devices, such as navigation systems, to detect attacks that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities via the Internet.
Through this agreement, events identified by the two technologies will be collected and sent to a cloud analytics platform that will detect and block suspicious traffic.
The collaboration between the brands will make it possible to offer a solution for vehicles and cloud systems that will act in the prevention of cyber attacks. Working together to develop this solution, Panasonic and Trend Micro intend to launch it commercially after 2020.
The architecture will be developed together and its structure can be seen in the figure below:
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*Electronic Control Unit: Computers that control actuators, such as the motor or steering wheel;
* In-vehicle infotainment / In-vehicle infotainment: Entertainment and information applications available in vehicles;
*3 Telematics: Service that sends/receives information to/from vehicles;
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