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A Cybersecurity Industry Perspective on Vehicle Safety Management and Ethernet Architecture

an Riches is Director of Automotive Practice at Strategy Analytics. He heads a research team that covers all aspects of embedded automotive electronic systems, semiconductors and sensors on a worldwide basis. With nearly 20

years of experience, he is one of the foremost industry analysts in the automotive electronics sector. His particular focus in recent years has been on some of the ADAS – advanced driver assistant systems, moving into autonomous vehicles. Mr. Riches was Chairman at IQPC’s Automotive BUS Systems Ethernet Conference in November 2015 in Düsseldorf. During the conference Automotive IQ interviewed Mr. Riches about the current market outlook for BUS technologies, Ethernet in ADAS systems and cyber security aspects of vehicle network architectures.

Mr. Riches, where are the trends going in terms of bus technologies and networks?

In terms of vehicle electronics, the three fastest growth areas are in electrified powertrains for hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, plugins, etc. Then there are all of the ADAS technologies moving towards more highly automated driving, meaning anything involving cameras, radars, LIDARS, and in getting the vehicle connected.

IQPC: We are currently living in the very early stage of the connected car. At the same time, getting the car more connected opens it up potentially to more threats.

The cars do need to get connected. It’s a slightly double-edged sword for many vehicle manufacturers, in that vehicle security and cybersecurity have become such a huge issue with the Fiat Chrysler hack, and in one sense it could have been anybody. You could say Fiat Chrysler were unlucky in that they were chosen, because they’re not particularly worse than anyone else. The sad thing about it was that somebody was able to hack remotely into the vehicle, but the only way that Fiat Chrysler could fix it was by recalling that vehicle to the dealer or by posting the driver a USB stick. So it could be broken from the other side of the world, but to fix it you had to sit in the car. That is a business model which is to us fundamentally broken at the moment.

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