Security News > 2022 > March > Mazda Infotainment Crash Shows How Fragile Car Security Really Is
Chances are we'll continue to hear reports of software breakdowns in vehicle systems, and as vehicles increasingly rely on code, risks of vulnerabilities affecting security and safety grow exponentially.
Preventing this type of issue in the development stage requires software engineers to follow secure coding standards that define how to write code in order to avoid security vulnerabilities in device software.
The cost of a software vulnerability in automotive devices skyrockets if it is discovered after the car hits the road. Beyond the price of pausing production or issuing recalls, software bugs could result in more than the inconvenience of a broken infotainment system.
Today's heavily automated cars demand OEMs extend their focus beyond physical car safety to include software security, from the earliest design stages all the way to tracking software versions that are already on the road. The Road to Automotive Safety: Secure Software.
An advanced automotive product security platform, like Cybellum, enables product security teams to track every single line of code in their software - whether it was created in-house or obtained from a third-party or open source - and ensure that software vulnerabilities are detected and addressed early, before they can cause costly injury to people and serious damage to manufacturers' reputations.
Car manufacturers need to start prioritizing device security to ensure all the software their products rely on doesn't drive them off the road..