Can Your Car Be Driven Away Remotely by Hackers? Smart Connected Vehicles' Security Draws Heated Discussions.

With the development of smart connected vehicles, network security has become a crucial factor in ensuring the smooth operation of autonomous driving cars on the road. In November 2023, four departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China jointly issued a notice on the pilot work of access and road operation of smart connected vehicles, clearly requiring enterprises to have the capabilities of ensuring network security and data security. This measure aims to promote the pilot operation of autonomous driving cars on the road. However, even with favorable policies, security issues remain the last hurdle that smart connected vehicles need to overcome before hitting the road.

Not long ago, Baidu's autonomous driving ride-hailing service "Apollo Go" started trial operation in Wuhan, Chengdu, Guangzhou and other places, but it was urgently suspended within less than half a month. This incident once again highlights the importance of the security of the Internet of Vehicles. Especially when L3 and L4 autonomous driving technologies are already mature, network security has become the most challenging part.

According to the "2023 Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report" released by the security research institution Upstream, in the past five years, the global automotive industry has suffered losses of more than 500 billion US dollars due to network attacks. Nearly 70% of automotive security threats stem from remote network attacks. Currently, the main security challenges faced by the automotive industry include the continuous emergence of new attack surfaces, the increasing complexity of automotive network attack methods, the huge negative impacts brought by attacks, the extensive threats of the supply chain, and the need to adapt to new security policies and regulations.

To solve the above problems, Knownsec has launched a comprehensive Internet of Things security protection system - IoT Shield. This system integrates "monitoring, protection, and management" to help enterprise users build a safe and usable Internet of Things security protection system and solve problems such as large-traffic DDoS/CC attacks, security vulnerabilities of devices themselves, external malicious instructions, and brute-force cracking.

As smart connected vehicles gradually enter our lives, the importance of network security is self-evident. As a comprehensive solution, Knownsec's IoT Shield can not only effectively deal with various security challenges currently faced by the Internet of Vehicles but also help enterprises meet the increasingly strict requirements of security policies and regulations, thus paving the way for the popularization of smart cars. In the future, with more autonomous driving cars on the road, IoT Shield will become an important tool to