Japanese industrial giants NTT Communications Corporation and Denso Corporation have decided to start a business “to respond to the threat of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks against vehicles.”
NTT Communications is a global IT services company that is a member of the NTT Group (which confusingly also operates NTT Data, another global IT services company). Denso is an auto parts maker that’s part of the Toyota empire. The two companies have collaborated on vehicle security for a few years now, with NTT Communications bringing its consulting expertise around technologies such as networking, cloud computing, and managed infosec services such as building security operations centres for clients. Denso has shared its knowledge of just what goes on inside a car. Now the pair have decided the time is right to productise those efforts by creating a “Security Operation Centre for Vehicles” that will offer at least the following four services:
- Vehicle monitoring and cyber-attack detection by automating the acquisition of log output from communications, connected servers, and security devices installed within vehicles
- Detection of cyber-attack trends along with the details of actual attacks against vehicles on an individual or fleet-wide basis
- Analysis of cyber-attacks and threats by expert security analysts, reporting of results and forensic information that facilitates recovery and response efforts, and real-time visualization and alerting for customers through a client portal site
- Vehicle security monitoring on a global scale
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