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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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In this chapter, we started by defining the different attack types that must be considered when building secure automotive systems. These attack types form a reference for future attacks that we will explore during the threat analysis phase. We then introduced the five main security objectives that any automotive system aims to achieve. These objectives will serve as parent objectives for our vehicle-level security goals. Next, we provided a crash course on cryptography and showed how to use its mechanisms to satisfy several of our security objectives. To complement these cryptographic mechanisms, we sampled the most common security principles that should influence the design of automotive systems. By covering these topics, we have established a good base for understanding security fundamentals and how they relate to automotive use cases.

While this chapter is by no means a comprehensive resource on all these topics, it should serve as an enabler to help you explore each...

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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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