Approaches for Automating Cybersecurity Testing of Connected Vehicles

Vehicles are on the verge building highly networked and interconnected systems with each other. This requires open architectures with standardized interfaces. These interfaces provide huge surfaces for potential threats from cyber attacks. Regulators therefore demand to mitigate these risks using structured security engineering processes. Testing the effectiveness of this measures, on the other hand, is less standardized. To fill this gap, this book chapter contains an approach for structured and comprehensive cybersecurity testing of contemporary vehicular systems. It gives an overview of how to define secure systems and contains specific approaches for (semi-)automated cybersecurity testing of vehicular systems, including model-based testing and the description of an automated platform for executing tests.