Next Generation of Automotive Security: Secure Hardware and Secure Open Platforms

This technical paper gives a short overview about the OVERSEE project, a European research project developing a new in-vehicle application and communication platform with an overall budget of about 4 M€ started in January 2010. The OVERSEE project will provide an open in-vehicle information technology (IT) platform and corresponding internal and external communication interfaces for downloading and execution of OEM applications as well as third party applications – similar to application stores known from mobile smart phones – in a safe, secure, and very flexible manner. Thus, OVERSEE will lower the barriers, that means, the costs and risks, for realizing new vehicular applications by providing a rich and standardized vehicular run-time environment, while dependably enforcing the security and reliability of the underlying information technology.