Protecting In-Vehicle Services: Security-Enabled SOME/IP Middleware. Iorio, M., Buttiglieri, A., Reineri, M., Risso, F., Sisto, R., & Valenza, F. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 15(3):77-85, 2020.
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With every generation, vehicles are becoming smarter and more oriented toward information and communications technology (ICT). However, computerization is posing unforeseen challenges in a sector for which the first goal must be safety: Car hacking has been shown to be a real threat. This article presents a novel mechanism to provide improved security for applications executed in the vehicle based on the principle of defining exactly who can talk to whom. The proposed security framework targets Ethernet-based com-munications and is tightly integrated within the emerging Scalable service-Oriented MiddlewarE over IP (SOME/IP) middleware. No complex configurations are needed: Simple high-level rules, clearly stating the communications allowed, are the only element required to enable the security features. The designed solution has been implemented as a proof of concept (PoC) inside the vsomeip stack to evaluate the validity of the approach proposed: Experimental measurements confirm that the additional overhead introduced in end-to-end communication is negligible. © 2020 IEEE.

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