Vehicle Security Operations Center for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility

by Kevin Mayer, Tina Volkersdorfer, Jenny Hofbauer, Patrizia Heinl, Hans-Joachim Hof (CARISSMA Institute of Electric, Connected and Secure Mobility (C-ECOS) Technical University Ingolstadt Ingolstadt, Germany)

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are well established in the general IT domain. They provide IT security services, including collecting and correlating data, detecting and analyzing cybersecurity incidents, and applying dedicated reactions to such incidents. With the increasing digital capabilities of modern vehicles, appropriate reactions to cybersecurity incidents for vehicles and their ecosystem should be applied, too. Therefore, we propose a novel architecture for a Vehicle Security Operations Center (VSOC) in a Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) environment. The VSOC implements different boxes addressing data storage, analysis capabilities, event-processing procedures, response options, digital forensics capabilities, and threat-hunting activities. The architecture allows the VSOC to communicate with third parties such as manufacturer backends or cybersecurity service providers (e.g., threat intelligence). Furthermore, we evaluate the proposed VSOC against fourteen metrics, which result from related work and our contribution. Examples are autonomy, data aggregation, coverage, inclusion of people, addressing physical assets, and supporting real-time safety.