A Formal Model to Facilitate Security Testing in Modern Automotive Systems
This work addresses security testing for modern automotive systems, which is crucial for safety and reliability, but it is incremental as it represents initial steps toward a broader framework.
The paper tackled the problem of security vulnerabilities in automotive systems by proposing a model-based framework using Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to create architectural models and initial attack sets for vehicle bus systems, with the goal of generating test code, but no concrete results or numbers are provided.
Ensuring a car's internal systems are free from security vulnerabilities is of utmost importance, especially due to the relationship between security and other properties, such as safety and reliability. We provide the starting point for a model-based framework designed to support the security testing of modern cars. We use Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to create architectural models of the vehicle bus systems, as well as an initial set of attacks against these systems. While this contribution represents initial steps, we are mindful of the ultimate objective of generating test code to exercise the security of vehicle bus systems. We present the way forward from the models created and consider their potential integration with commercial engineering tools