Vehicle Security Operation Center

2021: Launch of a security center to monitor vehicles for cyber attacks

At the end of March 2021 Panasonic , she announced that she intends to cooperate American with the developer anti-virus software McAfee to monitor cars for. cyber attacks Partners are creating a vehicle safety center and plan to launch a monitoring service in 2024.

The center will monitor vehicles on behalf of automakers. Upon detection of the threat, the operation center will extract all the necessary data from the hacked vehicle, analyze them and provide the results to the manufacturer. In this case, the manufacturer will be able to disable the on-board systems of the car or issue security updates for the software.

Panasonic, along with McAfee, began to protect cars from hacker attacks

Thus, the center's specialists will provide detection and early response to attacks, as well as help strengthen cybersecurity measures in the automotive industry based on big data analysis. The service revenue model is likely to be based on paid subscriptions.

With the innovative development of unmanned driving, the development of digital technologies and the increase in the number of cars connected to the network, the risk of cyber attacks on vehicles increases every year. The automotive industry should urgently create mechanisms for protecting and monitoring vehicles from hacker cyber attacks. The Vehicle Safety Management Center will allow the provision of monitoring services for connected cars around the world and will contribute to supporting the safety of this industry, Panasonic said.

As the number of to the Internet autonomous cars connected to the market increases, the need to protect them from. In hackers February 2021, more than twenty automotive companies, including Panasonic, a supplier of batteries for, and electric cars Tesla, Toyota Motor created an organization to combat cyber attacks.^[1]

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