Middleware-based Security for Hyperconnected Applications in Future In-Car Networks

Today’s cars take advantage of powerful electronic platforms and provide more and more sophisticatedconnected services. More than just ensuring the role of a safe transportation mean, they process privateinformation, industrial secrets, communicate with our smartphones, Internet and will soon host third-party applications. Their pervasive computerization makes them vulnerable to common security attacks,against which automotive technologies cannot protect. The transition toward Ethernet/IP-based on-boardcommunication could be a first step to respond to these security and privacy issues. In this paper, we presenta security framework leveraging local and distributed information flow techniques in order to secure theon-board network against internal and external untrusted components. We describe the implementation andintegration of such a framework within an IP-based automotive middleware and provide its evaluation.