The manufacturing of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is happening and they are aiming at providing an efficient, safe, and seamless driving experience. This is done by offering automated driving together with wireless communication to and from various objects in the surrounding environment. How automated the vehicle is can be classified from level 0 (no automation at all) to level 5 (fully automated). There is many potential attack vectors of CAVs for attackers to take advantage of and these attack vectors may change depending on what level of automation the vehicle have. There are some known vulnerabilities of CAVs where the security has been breached, but what is seemed to be lacking in the academia in the field of CAVs is a place where the majority of information regarding known attack vectors and cyber-attacks on those is collected. In addition to this the attack vectors may be analyzed for each level of automation the vehicles may have. This research is a systematic literature review (SLR) with three stages (planning, conducting, and report) based on literature review methodology presented by Kitchenham (2004). These stages aim at planning the review, finding articles, extracting information from the found articles, and finally analyzing the result of them. The literature review resulted in information regarding identified cyberattacks and attack vectors the attackers may use as a path to exploit vulnerabilities of a CAV. In total 24 types of attack vectors were identified. Some attack vectors like vehicle communication types, vehicle applications, CAN bus protocol, and broadcasted messages were highlighted the most by the authors. When the attack vectors were analyzed together with the standard of ‘Levels of Driving Automation’ it became clear that there are more vulnerabilities to consider the higher level of automation the vehicle have. The contributions of this research are hence (1) a broad summary of attack vectors of CAVs and (2) a summary of these attack vectors for every level of driving automation. This had not been done before and was found to be lacking in the academia.
A Literature Review of Connected and Automated Vehicles : Attack Vectors Due to Level of Automation
2020-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
Attack Vector , CAV , Connected and Automated Vehicle , Cyber-Attacks , Cyber-Security , ITS , Levels of Driving Automation , VANET , Vehicular Communication , Computer and Information Sciences , Data- och informationsvetenskap , Information Systems , Systemvetenskap , informationssystem och informatik
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