Part of the Sectigo IoT Identity Platform, the new product was developed specifically for transportation security. To speed adoption–and security–across the automotive supply chain, Mentor, a Siemens business and technology leader in embedded software and electronic design automation (EDA), has integrated the Sectigo Embedded Firewall for Automotive with its popular Autostar platform.

“As a leading provider of Autostar standard software, it is imperative that we offer solutions that help our customers, including ECU suppliers and transportation OEMs, to protect cars and fleets from network-based cyber attacks,” said Mathias Fritzson, Vstar Product Manager at Mentor, a Siemens Business. “Through product integration with Sectigo, a leader in end-to-end IoT identity and integrity, our customers will be able to easily add critical security capabilities to their devices. A global tier-one automotive ECU supplier is one of the early adopters of our Sectigo-enabled Autostar platform, indicating the urgency for embedded security.”

“Sectigo’s Embedded Firewall enables automotive ECU suppliers to enforce filtering rules, perform anomaly detection, and identify traffic variances to prevent cyber attacks. This unique functionality maximizes driver safety and helps prevent the loss of intellectual property, disruption of services, and proliferation of an attack to other systems,” explained Alan Grau, VP of IoT/Embedded Solutions, Sectigo. “With integration of our embedded firewall into its Autostar platform, Mentor is expanding distribution, integration, and access to critical cyber security technology to its base of automotive ECU customers across the industry.”

To protect from these attacks, automotive manufacturers need an embedded firewall to control traffic into the exposed electronic control units (ECUs) in a vehicle, similar to how a firewall protects home and corporate networks. Embedded firewalls help prevent access from outside cyber attacks on a car’s electronics, while still enabling authenticated access for software upgrades and updates.

Available today, Sectigo Embedded Firewall for Automotive is thought to be the only security solution that has been embedded within automotive ECUs to provide anomaly detection, stateful packet inspection, rules-based filtering, and threshold-based filtering.