Karen Cover, social media coordinator for the UBM Americas Automotive Group, wrote a blog “Taking Responsibility for Vehicle Cybersecurity.”
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) now offers guidelines to improve vehicle cybersecurity for organizations that manufacture and design vehicle systems and software.
The guidelines recommend a layered approach to vehicle cybersecurity to reduce the probability of the success of an attack and to mitigate unauthorized access.
But car manufacturers aren’t the only ones that need to focus on vehicle cybersecurity. Auto repair and collision repair shops need to practice cybersecurity best practices. Independent repair shops need to be proactive to help keep their customers’ vehicle secure.
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