Collaborate Disseminate
Once upon a time, the automobile was a mostly mechanical beast, but no longer. Advanced electronics have weaved their way into the modern car, from engine to infotainment and climate control to the buttons now sprinkled throughout the passenger cabin. …read more
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The automotive industry is looking to step up its collaboration with cybersecurity researchers to identify software and hardware bugs in order to better protect vehicles which are becoming more connected and automated. “We’ve begun to actively develop relationships with the researcher community to encourage them to look at our vehicles and to let us know if they find vulnerabilities,” Harry Lightsey, an executive at General Motors, said Tuesday at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. A case in point is a workshop in Detroit next week that will show industry representatives how to set up an effective vulnerability disclosure program, a practice that enlists outside researchers to find bugs in an organization’s equipment. The workshop’s goal will be to “understand what a vulnerability disclosure program is, how to stand one up, what the pitfalls are,” Faye Francy told CyberScoop after the Wilson Center event. She heads the Automotive Information Sharing […]
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