Two-Day Course Overview
As the automotive industry continues its trajectory toward more software-centric and connected solutions, cyber threats are increasing in frequency and severity. With cybersecurity as an essential part of design and development, mastering secure C and C++ coding is no longer optional — it’s essential.
Our comprehensive course equips participants with a strong understanding of the intersection between cybersecurity and software by linking the critical foundations of software engineering with industry-specific cybersecurity insights. Exercises and examples are used within the presentation to enhance this understanding and provide a big picture view of C and C++ specific vulnerabilities, attack patterns and mitigations under an automotive lens.
Training Topics
- Overview, background and need for automotive cybersecurity
- The essential software engineering foundation
- Software development life cycle
- Principles and best practices for architectural design and unit design
- Best practices for architectural analysis
- The cybersecurity foundation
- Secure coding
- Cryptography
- Secure boot and other hardware-specific functions
- Secure operating systems
- Access control
- Intrusion, detection and protection systems
- Secure software updates
- Cybersecurity deep dive
- C and C++ specific vulnerabilities, attacks and mitigations
- Automotive-specific vulnerabilities, attacks and mitigations
- Anatomy of an attack and attack flow
- Defense in depth
- Ensuring security
- Verification and validation
- Penetration testing
- Continuous cybersecurity activities
