PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Imagine a situation where you lose the ability to break or steer while speeding down a highway? Therefore smart vehicles are vulnerable since hackers can send commands to your vehicle from a remote location to track entire fleet or individual vehicles, steal corporate and private data and also hijack safety and non-safety critical functions. In an effort to strengthen the small vehicle industry cyber security posture, various stakeholders such as the regulatory bodies, insurance companies, telecommunication providers, manufacturers, governments, and other organizations are working together. The car manufacturers can mitigate the attack on the CAN by adopting specific network countermeasures although security cannot be guaranteed fully (“Smart cars. This is because the vulnerability of smart vehicles lies in the design hence cannot be patched immediately.