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Improving Connected Cars Through App Security (InfoGraphic)

For application developers, data forensics will be increasingly important in determining the traces left behind in a connected car hack, including malicious code. Aside from who was behind the attack, they also need to consider the means used. This includes communication channels like WiFi, Bluetooth and USB that are making their way into cars via OBD2 ports, which are shown on this infographic by Arxan about IoT-related application protection for cars and software in other industries.

Arxan Connected Car Vulnerabilities

Arxan Connected Car Vulnerabilities



Connected vehicles like the autonomous car in Tesla’s latest effort to plan a long road trip around the US are aware of each other and their own surroundings through sensors. The auto industry has used sensors for many years to monitor vitals like engine performance, but much fewer than the high-resolution cameras and other means of tracking the vehicle’s distance between it and other objects you see on the top of driverless cars today.

 

Recent efforts by manufacturers to make their connected cars perform better through advanced sensor technology have been undertaken by Tata Motors and Ford. Testing in the UK, Jaguar Land Rover, a subsidiary of Tata Motors, is working on allowing cars to speed ahead of slower vehicles without the driver's intervention.

More sophisticated sensors also require more complex code, meaning that all applications used in Internet-of-Things technologies should be held to the same encryption standards. End-to-end encryption is a way of making sure that a third party can’t intercept communication between two people--and something that business app developers can use to protect sensitive company information.


To enable this type of complex code while still rapidly developing apps, coding-optional is key. Learn how Alpha Anywhere's coding optional approach gives developers the flexibility they need to add the security requirements their apps need.


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Amy Groden-Morrison
Amy Groden-Morrison

Amy Groden-Morrison has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security and Ziff-Davis. Most recently she was responsible for developing marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth rate for analytics products at a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration Software Company. Her past accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, launching an events company on the NYSE, rebranding a NASDAQ-listed company amid a crisis, and positioning and marketing a Boston-area startup for successful acquisition. Amy currently serves as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Launch Smart Clinics, and on the organizing team for Boston TechJam. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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