Cycurhsm: Design Workshop: Automotive Hsms
Cycurhsm: Design Workshop: Automotive Hsms
Cycurhsm: Design Workshop: Automotive Hsms
Due to the increased networking of automotive Electronic However, classical secure elements (Smartcards, TPM,
Control Units (ECU) - each involving increasingly complex security IC) do not satisfy specific automotive require-
software - and the fact that ECUs carry out more and more ments, e.g. availability of debug/test interfaces, auto-
sensitive tasks, the attack surface and the resulting finan- motive qualification requirements and resilience against
cial loss caused by a successful attack on an ECU will grow attacks on communication interfaces. This motivated
significantly in the near future. Bosch to specify a dedicated automotive-qualified HSM.
In order to harden ECUs against attacks, security mecha-
nisms preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data or ESCRYPT has extensive experience in implementing HSMs
successful manipulation of the ECU software must be used. and supporting HSM specification through a long history
of industrial and research projects.
Automotive Hardware Security Modules Thus, our highly-experienced technical HSM experts will
enable any chip manufacturer during an effective two-day
For security at ECU level, pure security solutions in soft- workshop to
ware cannot sufficiently protect the integrity of an embed-
ded automotive system. Therefore, a Hardware Security ▪▪ Understand the main implementation requirements
Module (HSM) is a necessary prerequisite to harden em- and challenges
bedded systems. HSMs are optional on-chip extensions to ▪▪ Estimate the cost-benefit relationship of the imple-
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