HERE Technologies has joined the Uptane Alliance to work on highly-secure software updates for vehicles and other edge devices and infrastructure.
The Uptane Alliance is a non-profit group of automotive companies, security researchers and government agencies working towards software for the security of over-the-air (OTA) software updates.
“The automotive industry has realised that OTA updates are necessary for safety, security, and to reduce costs,” says Uptane Alliance board of directors member Justin Cappos.
“If not appropriately secured, software update systems are an attack vector that attackers can exploit. The Uptane Alliance brings together academic expertise about securing update systems and automotive industry domain knowledge to create a standard that will keep cars and other connected edge devices safe.”
HERE provides its Uptane-based OTA software management technology, HERE OTA Connect, to equipment manufacturers to enable the highly-secure remote exchange of software and data between cloud and cars.
“In the auto industry, national lawmakers and global organisations like the UN are obliging carmakers to maintain the highest levels of security and ensure that their vehicles are always running the best code,” says HERE Technologies lead architect Jon Oster.
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