Automotive Cyber Security: Protecting the Vehicular Network

Learn about cyber threats, blockchain applications & data security to help safeguard intelligent vehicles & transportation systems.

  • 0.5 CEU / 5 PDH credits
  • Launched 2020
  • 5 courses
  • 5 hours

Course Description

As the automotive industry continues to work on intelligent and autonomous vehicles, there is a need to better comprehend the safety and security of this connected technology. The IEEE 5-course program, Automotive Cyber Security: Protecting the Vehicular Network, aims to foster the discussion on automotive cyber security solutions and requirements for not only intelligent vehicles, but also the infrastructure of intelligent transportation systems.

Technical professionals need to understand the cyber security challenges, possible solutions, and methodology to finding the security requirements needed during the design and development of automotive technology. This course program investigates cyber security issues and solutions as well as how blockchain technology applies to automotive applications. It also provides in-depth knowledge of collecting, analyzing and interpreting vehicular data and its impact on security, the economy, and safety into the future.

Course Objectives

  • The fundamentals of the vehicle communication environment based on the evolution of intelligent and autonomous vehicles
  • How to conduct a cyber security risk analysis based on known threats and knowledge from past attacks that will minimize risks to such threats
  • How to identify the components of the automotive system architecture and the secure vehicular cloud server platform based on the nature of connected vehicles; and how do they work
  • How to successfully select and apply adaptive cyber security solutions for autonomous vehicles based on the features, goals and engineering requirements of the intelligent transportation system
  • How and which blockchain technologies can be used to secure autonomous vehicles based on case studies and simulation analysis
  • How to identify the advantages and challenges of collecting real-time vehicular data for the purpose of interpreting them to advance cyber security and safety for autonomous vehicles

Authors and Instructors

Madhusudan Singh

Assistant Professor/Director of ReBlockchain Group at ECIS, Woosong University, South Korea

Dr. Madhusudan Singh is a Senior Member of IEEE and an ACM Distinguished speaker. He has conducted extensive research on smart cities and automotive cyber security for which he has authored an IEEE eLearning course. He has also conducted research on artificial intelligence and blockchain technology as applied in the field of cyber security. Dr. Singh is actively involved in a blockchain technology-based startup and serves as a series editor for blockchain technologies in Springer Nature. He also conducts research on wireless communications technologies and software engineering. Today, he teaches as an Associate Professor of Information Security at the University of Tartu in Estonia.

Irish Singh

Computer engineer working as a research associate at the Software Convergence Technology Department at the Ajou University in South Korea

Irish Singh is a computer engineer working as a research associate at the Software Convergence Technology Department at the Ajou University in South Korea. Her research on adaptive security in cloud computing, self-adaptive requirements engineering, and blockchain solutions for the vehicular environment has been published in peer-reviewed publications. She specializes in adaptive security against cyber attacks on intelligent and autonomous vehicles.

Dhananjay Singh

Award winning scientist and academic with applied knowledge in the field of data science and engineering for smart city mobility technologies

Dr. Dhananjay Singh is a full professor, award-winning scientist, and an academician with applied knowledge based on emerging technologies such as human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain databases, all working toward the transformation of smart city technologies. Over the past ten years, he has been involved in several successful startups to support smart-city services. Dr. Singh is a Senior Member of IEEE and the ACM society. He is a co-author/editor of seven books, holds 15 patents, has authored 150+ research articles, and has also delivered over 100 keynote talks.

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