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Leveraging In-Car Security by Combining Information Flow Monitoring Techniques

Authors:
Alexandre Bouard
Hendrik Schweppe
Benjamin Weyl
Claudia Eckert

Keywords: Automotive Applications, Security, Privacy, Information Flow Controls, Data Flow Tracking

Abstract:
Modern automobiles are increasingly connected to the world and integrate always more electronic components managing simultaneously infotainment and safety functions. Much more than just a simple transportation mean, the car is now customizable and like current smartphones, it will soon allow to load and install third-party applications directly from the Internet, which raises some security issues. Until now, the car manufacturer has full control over the development process of the in-car software and in particular can perform any required security tests before the car production. The integration of untrusted pieces of code requires from now on new dynamic security mechanisms operating during the life time of the car. In this paper, we present the integration of data flow tracking tools in an automotive middleware allowing dynamic security monitoring of untrusted applications. We describe the implementation and integration of these mechanisms and provide their evaluation.

Pages: 1 to 7

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2327-2058

ISBN: 978-1-61208-288-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 26, 2013