Cybersecurity is essential for modern vehicles, as established by recent international regulations. These vehicles contain numerous electronic control units (ECUs) that manage vari-ous functions and are vulnerable to external attacks. The HARDNESS project aims to develop hardware-software solutions to enhance cybersecurity in the automotive industry by addressing two key issues. The first issue involves developing Software Over-The-Air (SOTA) update tech-nologies for ECUs, ensuring software authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality. These solutions must be robust against potential future attacks by quantum computers. Appropriate hardware supports and accelerators will be explored to make solutions efficient and portable to automotive platforms. The second issue focuses on developing an innovative system that combines hardware fingerprinting and rule-based techniques for anomaly and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in-vehicle networks. Particularly, the CAN bus interconnections between ECUs will be considered, which are increasingly exposed to external attacks due to numerous access points in the vehicle management and control system. Finally, an experimental setup will be developed to evaluate the proposed solutions.Cybersecurity is essential for modern vehicles, as established by recent international regulations. These vehicles contain numerous electronic control units (ECUs) that manage vari-ous functions and are vulnerable to external attacks. The HARDNESS project aims to develop hardware-software solutions to enhance cybersecurity in the automotive industry by addressing two key issues. The first issue involves developing Software Over-The-Air (SOTA) update tech-nologies for ECUs, ensuring software authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality. These solutions must be robust against potential future attacks by quantum computers. Appropriate hardware supports and accelerators will be explored to make solutions efficient and portable to automotive platforms. The second issue focuses on developing an innovative system that combines hardware fingerprinting and rule-based techniques for anomaly and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in-vehicle networks. Particularly, the CAN bus interconnections between ECUs will be considered, which are increasingly exposed to external attacks due to numerous access points in the vehicle management and control system. Finally, an experimental setup will be developed to evaluate the proposed solutions.

Keywords: Automotive, Cybersecurity, Post-quantum cryptography, Intrusion detection system, HW-SW Co-design.

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