Goal: The goal of this course is to introduce students to the basics of cybersecurity within the
automotive industry. Students will get an overview about cybersecurity management, ethical
hacking, system, software, and hardware security – using practical examples and case-studies
from the automotive industry.
Course description: Introduction to automotive cybersecurity and its management. Introduction
to automotive networks and their security, basics of penetration testing. Application of
cryptography within vehicles. Security of low-level languages (C, C++), secure coding. Security
of operating systems and firmware. Introduction to hardware-level security, analysis of
programmable circuit boards (PCB), reverse engineering, case studies.