[HGI-news-int] 1st escar USA - Embedded Security in Cars

[English Newsletter of the Horst Goertz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

Save the Date - The 1st escar USA 2013 - Embedded Security in Cars

The first escar USA workshop will be held May 29-30, 2013 in the Metro
Detroit area (Ypsilanti, MI). escar USA is the American edition of the
German escar, which is the leading automotive cybersecurity workshop and
just had its 10th anniversary. escar USA will bring together industry,
academia and government parties. Information about previous German escar
workshops is available at http://www.escar.info.

The automobile is entering a period of unprecedented changes and
challenges. Vehicles today are complex digital machines which can
contain over 70 Electronic Control Units (ECUs), several networks to
support these units, and a host of external interfaces. The interfaces
include USB, CD/DVD, AM/FM/Satellite Radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Dedicated
Short Range Communications (DSRC), Near Field Communications (NFC) and
cellular interfaces (GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE, etc.). Other wireless
interfaces can be used to support a host of features including remote
tire pressure monitoring, telematics, and smart key keyless
entry/ignition. The continuing trend in vehicle architecture is a shift
from an isolated, closed structure to more and more open systems.
Increasing feature sets, interconnectedness with internal and external
networks, and increasing complexity can also introduce security flaws
that may be exploitable by various adversaries such as "script kiddies",
dishonest drivers, criminals, corporate spies, and even the vehicle´s owner.

Presentations at the conference will include industry experts as well as
experts from academia and the US Department of Transportation. This
unique automotive security workshop will provide a forum for
disseminating state-of-the-practice approaches to cybersecurity in the
automotive industry, and for exchanging ideas about future challenges in
the field of automotive IT security.

Confirmed speakers include the following:

- Mark Brooks, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
- Mark Fabro, Lofty Perch
- Walt Fehr, DOT/FHWA
- Kathleen Fisher, DARPA
- Jorge Guajardo, Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center
- Kevin Harnett, DOT/VOLPE
- Thorsten Hehn, Volkswagen and CAMP
- Karl Heimer & Rob "Deker" Dekelbaum, Battelle
- Timo Kasper, Ruhr University Bochum
- David Kleidermacher, Green Hills
- Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington
- Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
- Tom Schaffnit, VIIC
- Klaus Scheibert, Infineon
- Marko Wolf, ESCRYPT

The conference information and registration websites are currently under
preparation and are expected to be online in three weeks. We will send
out another reminder once they are available.

Steering Committee escar USA 2013

- Tom Forest, General Motors Research, USA
- Kevin Harnett, Department of Transportation (DOT)/Volpe National
Transportation Systems Center (VOLPE), USA
- Christof Paar, University of Bochum, Germany, and University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
- André Weimerskirch, ESCRYPT Inc., USA


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Prof. Christof Paar  
Chair for Embedded Security 
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Information Technology
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

www.crypto-textbook.com

URL:    www.emsec.rub.de
Mobile: +49 (0)170 790 3393
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