EP 46 — TuSimple’s Madjid Nakhjiri on the Evolving Need for Automotive Cybersecurity

In this episode of the Future of Application Security, Harshil speaks with Madjid Nakhjiri, Head of Product Security and Lead Security Architect at TuSimple, a global autonomous driving technology company. They discuss the current landscape of automotive security today, why the industry is expanding its safety initiatives to cyber security initiatives, and the standards rising up to ensure that security. They also discuss the challenges to threat analysis and remote testing for vehicles, and what role VSOCs and AI will play in the future of automotive security.

Topics discussed:

• An overview of the current landscape of automotive security, and how the automotive industry, which already has a long history of safety initiatives, it's now turning its attention to cyber security.
• The standards that are being put in place for automotive companies around the world, and how companies are trying to meet those standards.
• Why the automotive industry needs experienced product security practitioners in order to perform effective architecture analysis.
• The challenges to performing threat detection and remote pen testing on vehicles, and why threat analysis needs to be as automated and virtualized as possible.
• What the future of automotive security looks like, why we'll see a rise in VSOCs, and what role AI will play.