The future car is all-electric and autonomous. It features more functionality and higher complexity than today. Like a smartphone, it is always online and fully connected. Fully connected within its on-board systems. Fully connected with other vehicles, with the infrastructure, with mobile devices, and with the Internet.

However, connectivity harbors the risk of unauthorized access to the car and personal data. No wonder that car makers already experience remote attacks on individual vehicles.

Realizing that each interface is a potential access point of attack, car occupants and other road users still want to rely on that connected cars are safe and, above all, cybersecure. Only then will they perceive such cars as “dependable” – and fully trust them.

This applies to today's vehicles featuring dependable advanced driver assist systems. It will apply even more so to future vehicles with higher levels of automated driving systems.

There is no safety without cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a prerequisite for all safety-critical applications of a car. But it is also important for other vehicle application fields such as body and convenience, chassis, cluster and infotainment, powertrain and energy management.

Infineon helps enable a dependable and secured vehicle architecture as well as highly secured data exchange between the various on-board systems and with other vehicles and the infrastructure.

We are convinced that cybersecurity “by design” is essential. With cybersecurity comprising of hardware, software and associated ecosystems – the path forward should incorporate a comprehensive cybersecurity system approach with strong cooperation of trustful and reliable partners across the whole automotive value chain.

Automotive cybersecurity is a “must” – and not just a “nice to have”

We know that there is no such thing as a “one-fits-all” cybersecurity solution. Cybersecurity is a moving target, an on-going process. Because both, the nature and intensity of attacks, can change. It’s important to think and act ahead of potential attacks, as many of the cars developed today will still be on the road in 20 years from now. And by this time, attackers will have learned many new ways to exploit vulnerabilities.

Crypto-Agility sure is key for the whole value chain.

When it comes to automotive cybersecurity, Infineon has been a trusted semiconductor advisor, partner and vendor to the car industry for many years.

We offer more than 30 years of cybersecurity experience and a highly scalable automotive portfolio, meeting the right level of cybersecurity required for each vehicle application. Our security hardware reduces complexity – and thus it helps you reduce cost and speed time-to-market. In combination with our extensive system knowledge we highly contribute to the trust in automated driving systems.

Think Automotive Dependability. Think Infineon

So if you want to rely on a trusted partner offering all relevant ingredients for your dependable systems – automotive quality, Functional Safety, cybersecurity, innovative products, system understanding, operational excellence – then you need Infineon and Infineon automotive dependability.

As the number one partner in the automotive industry, we shape the future of mobility making cars clean, safe and smart – through dependable electronics that enable systems that are the foundation for trust.