Q&A moderated by Bosong Zou, Vice General Manager of ICV Software Testing Department, China Software Testing Centre (CSTC); with Prof. Merhdad Dianati, Professor & Director, Warwick University; Dr. Tomas Olovsson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology; and Dr. Dennis Kengo Oka, Principal Automotive Security Strategist, Synopsys

Dr. Tomas Olovsson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology

Abstract: Road vehicles are now being equipped with more and more automated functions which rely on communication with other vehicles, road-side objects and with Internet and cloud-based services. These automated functions are becoming increasingly complex which also means that the complexity of the internal network and the system architecture increases. It is a major challenge to secure these vehicular systems and to be able to guarantee the correctness of all system functions at all times. This talk will highlight some of the challenges we face, problems we have to solve and show on some proposed solutions. We will also touch the problem of defining safe states, i.e. internal states that we know are safe and secure even if some parts of the system may have been compromised.

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