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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781801076531
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Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser
Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser
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Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser

Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser is an automotive cybersecurity architect with a long experience in securing safety-critical systems. He started his career as a software engineer, building automotive network drivers, diagnostics protocols, and flash programming solutions. This naturally led him into the field of automotive cybersecurity, where he designed secure firmware solutions for various microcontrollers and SoCs, defined secure hardware and software architectures of embedded systems, and performed threat analysis of numerous vehicle architectures, ECUs, and smart sensors. Ahmad holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in Dearborn. He is currently a principal security architect for NVIDIA's autonomous driving software platform.
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At a glance – the ISO 21434 standard

The ultimate goal of any cybersecurity engineering management system is to produce secure systems that are suitable for their intended use. This is achieved by accurately identifying and assessing cybersecurity risks that emerge throughout the product life cycle and providing mechanisms to reduce those risks to reasonable levels. Without the structured systematic engineering approach, engineers resort to an ad hoc approach to identifying risks as they become known and applying cybersecurity controls using a mixture of security best practices and expert knowledge. This commonly leads to three outcomes:

  • Certain risks remain unknown as the program cannot claim with certainty that all risk sources have been accounted for or that all technical risks have been analyzed
  • Inadequate cybersecurity controls are chosen, leaving residual risk that is not quantified or understood
  • Cybersecurity controls are over-engineered, resulting in...
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Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering Handbook
Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801076531

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Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser

Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser is an automotive cybersecurity architect with a long experience in securing safety-critical systems. He started his career as a software engineer, building automotive network drivers, diagnostics protocols, and flash programming solutions. This naturally led him into the field of automotive cybersecurity, where he designed secure firmware solutions for various microcontrollers and SoCs, defined secure hardware and software architectures of embedded systems, and performed threat analysis of numerous vehicle architectures, ECUs, and smart sensors. Ahmad holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in Dearborn. He is currently a principal security architect for NVIDIA's autonomous driving software platform.
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