June 2022: Automotive Firmware, Hypervisor and OS Cybersecurity Made Simpler

When
June 1, 2022 11:00 AM EST

Who
François-Frédéric Ozog, Director of Business Development, Linaro

What
Automotive Firmware, Hypervisor and OS Cybersecurity Made Simpler

Description
Cybersecurity is gaining traction in the automotive industry with ISO 21434 and 24089 being released.

Linaro and its members have been working on similar topics in a broader “industrial” context to address diversity of behaviours when it comes to cybersecurity on Arm processors.

Following intense market push, Linaro is about to create an automotive project and we are thus enhancing our cybersecurity approach to simplify the work of the automotive supply chain players in implementing ISO, UN WP.29 and NIST recommendations/requirements/regulations. The scope of this activity is Arm platform firmware, Xen hypervisor and Linux operating system. It is expected that this work will be leveraged by commercial providers to do the same.

The session will present available technologies on Arm platforms and the associated roadmap. In addition, the implementation routes to proper multi-tenancy in automotive will be discussed. A key challenge to solve is to give tenants such as insurance companies assurance that their data or algorithms are confidential and protected against tampering by any actor.

Topics to be covered:

- SecureBoot, MeasuredBoot, 

- Sealed disks (intellectual IP protection and more)

- Firmware and secure firmware OTA with anti-bricking and anti-rollback policies

- Application/container security anchored at hardware root of trust

- Onboarding, provisioning

- Trusted Execution Environments