NOVI – Risk from digital hackers is now endemic through all industries, but few are more prone to seeing its future success impaired than the automotive sector. That’s because, without a secure platform of technology, the connected car industry’s dreams of increased autonomous features leading up to the driverless vehicle will remain just that – a pipe-dream.

Increasingly, carmakers, suppliers and data carriers are all coming to the conclusion that developing a robust digital security platform, free from fears of third-party cyber-attacks, will require industry-wide collaboration.

So connected car specialists TU-Automotive has assembled some of the top industry playmakers in this field to discuss today’s hottest topics: Secure the Connected Car: Collaborate to Deliver a Robust End-to-End Architecture. Its conference TU-Automotive Cyber Security USA 2016 will dissect the real issues behind the headlines, helping professionals working in the connected car space to apply technology and best practices. Naturally, these are crucial to deliver robust security defences and processes within a more secure ecosystem.

The conference will bring together the major industry players from research labs, automakers, 1st Tier suppliers, security researchers and the complete supply chain to plan for the imminent future.

The leading topics to exercise these experts’ minds will include:

  • Connectivity: Risky business or savior? Mapping out the risk landscape and key attack surfaces but also understanding the opportunities connectivity provides for more up-to-date, cost-effective security
  • The ecosystem levels up: Exploring ways to tighten security in business and across the ecosystem, through improved standards, assessments and collaboration
  • Constant vigilance: Getting to grips with the cyber security process, including design, testing, intrusion detection, OTA updates, data encryption and among much more
  • The legislative arena: With the US President Barack Obama announcing plans to fast-track autonomous vehicle technology, now’s the time to understand what forms regulation may take as well as delving into the latest legal action in the courts
  • Gearing-up for future technology: Infotainment, cellular connections and OBDII are common focuses now but what about when V2X and autonomous hit the road?

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All these crucial areas will be discussed in detail by an impressive selection of industry experts including Kevin Baltes, director and CISO – Vehicle Services Cyber Security with General Motors, Matt Jones, president at GENIVI, André Weimerskirch, associate research scientist at UMTRI, Robert Gee, head of product management, Software and Connected Solutions at Continental, Robert Strassburger, vice-president, Safety & Harmonisation with the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Dariusz Mikulski, cyber security research scientist, Ground Vehicle Robotics with US Army TARDEC, Robert Gruszczynski, OBD communication expert with Volkswagen Group of America and Faye Francy, executive director Aviation ISAC Cyber Security ONE Team Leader, Network and Security Systems, with the Boeing Company.

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And if all this were not incentive enough to attend the conference on 29 and 30 March in Detroit, TU-Automotive are offering a special $200 discount per pass for registrations made before Friday 5 February 2016. To book your place simply follow this link. Save an extra $100 on online prices when you use the code 4392MIT.