“Two exciting breakthroughs in autonomous vehicle cybersecurity, though questions remain”
As vehicles become more autonomous and intelligent through the advancement of computerized systems and sensors to provide safer mobility, the potential infiltration of such technology will always be present. Researchers at the University of Virginia and Texas A&M’s Cyberphysical Systems Laboratory have provided suggestions and different approaches to improving the cybersecurity of autonomous vehicle systems. One researcher suggests the implementation of redundancy sensors to detect intrusion. Another group of researchers have discovered a way to filter out malicious traffic sent to a vehicle’s actuators through the application of dynamic watermarking. This article further discusses this approach and unanswered questions pertaining to autonomous vehicle cybersecurity.