Assessing Security of Internal Vehicle Networks
Paper in proceeding, 2023

Automotive software grows exponentially in size. In premium vehicles, the size can reach over 100 million lines of code. One of the challenges in such a large software is how it is architecturally designed and whether this design leads to security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we report on a design science research study aimed at understanding the vulnerabilities of modern premium vehicles. We used machine learning to identify and reconstruct signals within the vehicle's communication networks. The results show that the distributed software architectures can have security vulnerabilities due to the high connectivity of modern vehicles; and that the security needs to be seen holistically - both when constructing the vehicle's software and when designing communication channels with cloud services. The paper proposed a number of measures that can help to address the identified vulnerabilities.

Author

Anas Alkoutli

University of Gothenburg

Joakim Anderlind

University of Gothenburg

Carl-Johan Björnson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

University of Gothenburg

Mathias Drage

University of Gothenburg

Morgan Thowsen

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Functional Programming

Antonia Welzel

Software Engineering 1

University of Gothenburg

Miroslaw Staron

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

0302-9743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 13928 151-164
978-3-031-36888-2 (ISBN)

16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA)
Prague, Czech Republic,

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

Computer Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_12

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10/29/2024