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INTACS has developed and rolled out Automotive SPICE® for Cybersecurity Assessor training and developed training materials to prepare assessors to rate processes like SEC.1 – SEC.4 and MAN.7 Cybersecurity Risk Management. This requires from automotive projects a well-structured TARA (Cybersecurity Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment) and a basic understanding of automotive cybersecurity architectural frameworks to analyse cybersecurity scenarios and derive cybersecurity controls and requirements. This paper will outline the expectations from automotive projects and provide experiences from a first year of training and assessments on the market applying Automotive SPICE® for Cybersecurity. It will also give hints for how to create additional cybersecurity views in the system and software architecture.
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A platform were such new cross-cutting approaches can be discussed is EuroAsiaSPI2. Its mission is to develop an experience and knowledge exchange platform for Europe where Software Process Improvement (SPI) practices can be discussed and exchanged and knowledge can be gathered and shared [5, 15, 16, 38, 39, 40, 64]. The connected SPI manifesto defines the required values and principles for a most efficient SPI work.
The principle “Use dynamic and adaptable models as needed” means that cybersecurity norms and views in future need to be integrated into the existing processes.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the INTACS working group for cybersecurity which developed the Automotive SPICE® for cybersecurity training. The author Liedtke is lead of that group and the authors Messnarz, Ekert, Much are members of that group and contributed to this paper.
We are grateful to the EU funded Ersamus+ project Grant Agreement No. 101087552 - FLAMENCO where the implementation of new skills in automotive industry are supported for ISCN in this paper.
In these cases the publications reflect the views only of the author(s), and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
We are grateful to a working party of Automotive suppliers SOQRATES [39] (https://soqrates.eurospi.net) who provided inputs for cybersecurity best practices. This includes: Dallinger Martin (ZF), Dorociak Rafal (HELLA), Dreves Rainer (Continental), Ekert Damjan (ISCN), Forster Martin (ZKW), Gasch Andreas (Cariad), Geipel Thomas (Robert BOSCH GmbH), Grave Rudolf (Tasking), Griessnig Gerhard (AVL), Gruber Andreas (CERTX), Habel Stephan (Continental), Karner Christoph (KTM), Kinalzyk Dietmar (AVL), König Frank (ZF), Kotselidis Christos (Pierer Innovation), Kurz-Griessnig Brigitte (Magna ECS), Lindermuth Peter (Magna Powertrain), Macher Georg (TU Graz), Mandic Irenka (Magna Powertrain), Mayer Ralf (BOSCH Engineering), Messnarz Richard (ISCN), Much Alexander (Elektrobit AG), Nikolov Borislav (MSG Plaut), Oehler Couso Daniel (Magna Powertrain), Pernpeintner Michael (Schäffler), Riel Andreas (Grenoble iNP, ISCN Group), Rieß Armin (BBraun), Santer Christian (AVL), Shaaban Abdelkader (AIT), Schlager Christian (Magna ECS), Schmittner Christoph (AIT), Sebron Walter (MSG Plaut), Sechser Bernhard (Process Fellows), Sporer Harald Infineon), Stahl Florian (AVL), Wachter Stefan, Walker Alastair (MSG Plau), Wegner Thomas (ZF), Geyer Dirk (AVL), Dobaj Jürgen (TU Graz), Wagner Hans (MSG Systems), Aust Detlev, Zurheide Frank (KTM), Suhas Konanur (ENX), Erik Wilhelm (Kyburz), Noha Moselhy (VALEO), Jakub Stolfa (VSB TUO), Michael Wunder (Hofer Powertrain), Svatopluk Stolfa (VSB TUO).
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Liedtke, T., Messnarz, R., Ekert, D., Much, A. (2023). The New Cybersecurity Challenges and Demands for Automotive Organisations and Projects - An Insight View. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42307-9_21
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