Royal Holloway: Securing connected and autonomous vehicles

Table Of Contents

• Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are intriguing consumers, industries and governments across global economies, all heavily invested in the potential capabilities.
• Improvements in technological security, regulatory requirements, personal privacy safeguards, industry standardisation and consumer trust are all required to overcome the challenges CAVs face.
• The CAV space also has major cyber security considerations to be addressed. Alongside the traditional safety vulnerabilities that concern modern vehicles, CAVs present a vast attack surface for remote attacks on autonomous vehicle hardware, software, user privacy, security and more.
• Autonomous technologies in CAVs are in their infancy, and while a shift towards more advanced technologies may well provide a multitude of socioeconomic benefits, it will also bring forth previously unseen cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
•  In this article, we identify and assess the existing and emerging countermeasures for such vulnerabilities, and propose high-level recommendations for the vehicle and communication technologies, and the automotive industry, as a whole.