Global Platform is a technical standards organization that Automotive giant Stellantis has joined to promote global standards of cybersecurity of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). With the move, the company follows 14 leading auto brands, such as Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, FIAT, Jeep, Opel, Peugeot, and Vauxhall, in the lead to standardize the cybersecurity protocols of next-generation vehicles on an industry-wide basis.
Cooperation with other companies to boost the security of vehicles
Stellantis has engaged in alignment with the automotive use cases and with the regulatory requirements, as it develops as a member of the Global Platform. It has also Bill Mazzara, the North American Regulatory Lead and Technical Fellow of Product Cybersecurity at Stellantis, as co-captain of the GlobalPlatform Automotive Task Force, which shows that the company is leading the pack on the program.
Bill Mazzara says that GlobalPlatform has an Automotive Task Force, which supports the industry to standardize based on secure and scalable foundations of software-defined vehicles. By doing so, our participation is aimed at ensuring alignment of security standards and the cross-industrial co-operation in order to meet new demands of new regulatory and operational aspects, and ultimately the demands of our customers.
The Automotive Task Force is a developing ecosystem of automakers, cybersecurity companies, silicon vendors, and universities. Recent entrants are AIST, Cariad (Volkswagen), Dekra, ETAS, Linaro, Rambus, Renesas, Stellantis, Uni-sentry, and Woven by Toyota, which provide a complete ecosystem for cybersecurity standardization.
Large milestone in automotive cybersecurity congruency
Recent progress by the task force is a breakthrough, fully aligning GlobalPlatform specifications with the new addendum to the SAE J3101 Hardware Protected Security Environment automotive cybersecurity standard (J3101-5). Through this alignment, GlobalPlatform-compatible suppliers have the ability to demonstrate automatic compliance with J3101, which gives automakers the assurance that embedded vehicle components are cybersecurity compliant.
Such a standardization makes it easy to integrate with AutoSAR applications, Car Connectivity Consortium applications, and other vehicle interfaces. The development is an important move towards integrating the cybersecurity standards throughout the automotive industry to make it less fragmented, to enhance the security of the vehicle as a whole.
An efficient certification procedure lowers the cost in the industry
The Mobility Task Force has developed a protection profile based on the SESIP assessment approach to address component-level certifications to SAE J3101.ย GlobalPlatform engagement by Stellantis demonstrates that we are interested in fostering rapidly scaled, standardized, and safely secure technologies that can possibly scale across the entire automotive ecosystem, said Muttalip Akin, SVP, Head of Electrical, Electronic, and Hardware Engineering, Stellantis.
Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere, Executive Director of Global Platform, remarked on the industry impact: These new developments are a milestone in the industry about the creation of a standardized and certified platform of secure vehicle applications. We urge other companies in the automotive sector to collaborate with us in our attempt to minimize risk, lower costs, and undo fragmentation in the automotive cybersecurity ecosystem.
There was the solving of the software-defined vehicle
The joint venture facilitates the complex cybersecurity demands of contemporary software-defined vehicles, and the vehicles require feasible security systems to combat current and emerging threats of cybercrime. GlobalPlatform technologies are already integrated in billions of smart cards, smartphones, wearables, and other connected devices in the industry of the Internet of Things and offer established security knowledge to the automotive sector.
The fact that Stellantis implements GlobalPlatform standards is a gesture of strategic commitment to the realization of automotive cybersecurity through the unity of the industry. It is through the use of the business to shape the future of secure software-defined vehicles: co-chairing the Automotive Task Force and using the existing security guidelines to save money and complexity across the automotive ecosystem.