Eyal Avidov: Car manufacturers will be required to protect vehicles from cyber

This is according to a new EU regulation, which will also be valid in Israel; Israeli companies are considered leaders in the field, and this is expected to increase their volume of operations

The car manufacturers that will market cars in Europe (and in Israel) will be required until 2022 by law to protect the vehicles from cyber-attacks. This emerges from new legislation passed in the EU.

It should be noted in recent years that cases in which vehicles have been exposed to potential cyber-attacks have been discovered in the world and in Israel, but the issue of protecting cars from hackers has not hitherto been considered a must, but rather a natural course of action that the vehicle manufacturer will take – for the safety of customers. Only this month was the first car crash of its kind in Israel, for fear of hacking hackers. Among the vehicles tested: Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee from 2014 and 2015, on personal import.

The new legislation has been passed by the EU and is valid for vehicles that comply with European regulations – ie the whole set of laws and regulations required to comply with a vehicle marketed on the continent. Israel adheres to European regulations, which means that every law and rule that applies to cars marketed in Europe is also valid for Israel – including the future need for protection against cyber threats.

The new legislation establishes uniform rules for all car manufacturers that define the limits of the “protection shell” of a vehicle from cyber threats – including the ability to identify specific threats to individual vehicles – and quickly implement a “protection network” for all vehicles of this model, establishing a uniform protocol for software updates to be entered. To all cars and establish a uniform procedure for all car manufacturers for wireless software updates that are performed wirelessly. ” The listed regulations include malware detection settings, instant detection of malfunctions and problems that could imply cyber-attack, and instant identification of the threat level to car occupants, ie whether it is a hacker’s threat that disrupts radio broadcasts, or is it capable of disabling car brakes.

Such a move in which the EU standardizes cyber protection is likely to have a direct impact on the Israeli market: Israel is now considered one of the world’s leading countries in the development of automated cyber protections (ie car). Companies such as Argus and CYMOTIVE, founded by Yuval Diskin, among others, now provide cyber services to a large number of car manufacturers. Now Israeli companies are expected to increase the scope of their activities in this field.