Authors:
Shengzhi Zhang
1
;
Omar Makke
2
;
Oleg Gusikhin
2
;
Ayush Shah
2
and
Athanasios Vasilakos
3
Affiliations:
1
Florida Institute of Technology, United States
;
2
Ford Motor, United States
;
3
LTU, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Cyber Security, Infotainment, Mobile Application, IoT.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Uses
;
Sensor Networks
;
Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
;
Telecommunications
;
Vehicular Networks
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Nowadays automotive industry has been working on the connectivity between automobile and smartphones,
e.g., Ford’s SmartDeviceLink, MirrorLink, etc. However, as the interoperability between the smartphone and
automotive system increase, the security concern of the increased attack surface bothers the automotive
industry as well as the security community. In this paper, we thoroughly study the attack vectors against the
novel connection framework between automobile and smartphones, and propose a generic security model to
implement a dependable connection to eliminate the summarized attack vectors. Finally, we present how our
proposed model can be integrated into existing automotive framework, and discuss the security benefits of
our model.