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functional safety and cybersecurity
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S P E C I A L : S O F T W A R E
“We simply have to stay at least one step ahead of our opponents,” says
Geyer, explaining what he together with 90 colleagues in Regensburg fo-
cus their energy on.
At AVL our Functional Safety and Cybersecurity portfolio aims to support
OEMs, Tier1s and other suppliers – as well as certification bodies – through-
out the complete development process. In recent years, the automotive in-
dustry has experienced the emergence of cybersecurity regulations. Besides
the engineering standard ISO21434, the two most prominent are UNECE
regulation UN R155, which applies to the UNECE member states, and
GB/T, which applies to China. Automotive cybersecurity legislation estab-
lishes a set of requirements, practices, and principles to protect connected
vehicles from misuse by malicious hackers. Binding standards such as ISO
26262 ensure that evolving mobility technologies meet the requirements for
rigorous functional integrity and safety. We support compliance with these
standards and continually keep up to date with regulatory requirements.
At AVL, we help our customers with our comprehensive engineering
services from the development to the in-use phase. Furthermore, we offer
a powerful software and testing tool suite to support and optimize process
automation and efficiency.
As object detection for automat-
ed driving and rapidly changing
attacker models for cybersecuri-
ty mechanisms have come on the
scene, deterministic observers alone
cannot be the answer. The power
of cross-domain-servers (CDS) en-
ables the implementation of appro-
priate machine learning algorithms.
Existing systems will be further
developed under appliance of Cy-
ber Security Management Systems
(CSMS) and Software Update Man-
agement Systems (SUMS). One of
our strongest responses to the ad-
ditional effort and complexity to
secure vehicles is the AVL Cyber
Security Tool Suite. It is designed
to streamline, automate and con-
nect continuous tasks in the pro-
cess such as lifecycle management,
threat analysis/risk assessment, vul-
nerability management, testing and
much more.
DISCOVER THE CYBERPOWER OF DISRUPTIVE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
CYBER ATTACKS ARE MORE
COMMON THAN WE THINK.”
Dirk Geyer
Head of Segment Safety and Security at AVL
Software and Functions in Regensburg, Germany
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