Safety is of primary importance in the whole design and development process of an automotive project. Although provisions ensure the safe development of components in a distributed process, potential failures may go unnoticed, requiring thorough system-wide safety...
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On the Highway to Compliance: Decoding Cybersecurity Standards in the Automotive Industry
by Loan Betend | Sep 21, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a major topic in the automotive industry. However, for newcomers in the cybersecurity world, it is not easy to understand how to integrate it as smoothly as possible into the company’s operations. Thus, this blog post aims to clarify the landscape of...
How to calculate hardware reliability in cross-domain applications
by Arman Iranfar | Sep 4, 2023 | Automotive, Functional Safety
Introduction Reliability is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety and functionality of complex systems in various industries, including automotive and industrial control. Two prominent standards that address hardware reliability in these domains are ISO 26262 and...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.3 – Focus on vehicle requirements (RXsWIN & VTA)
by Kilian Marty | Jun 22, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The first two episodes of this miniseries provide an overview of the new UN ECE R156 regulation, the related standard ISO 24089, and their management level requirements. In this third episode, the focus shifts to requirements impacting the vehicle, such as the...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.4 – UN ECE R155 from CSMS to Vehicle Type Approval (VTA)
by Kilian Marty | Mar 8, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the fourth and last episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels.Previous episode Cyber Security...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.2 – Focus on Software Update Management Systems (SUMS)
by Kilian Marty | Jan 23, 2023 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The first episode of this miniseries put an overview of the new UN ECE R156 regulation and related standard ISO 24089. This episode will focus on the management systems for the Software update required by them, so called SUMS (Software Update Management Systems). How...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.3 – A management system story
by Kilian Marty | Nov 14, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the third episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels.Previous episode Cyber Security for Road...
Software Update for Road Vehicles – Ep.1 – Overview of UN R156 and ISO 24089
by Kilian Marty | Nov 3, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This new miniseries of posts aims to introduce the recent UN R156 for software update management systems (SUMS) and its impact on vehicle type approvals. Several episodes will be published for clarifying and developing how vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers...
IAA Transportation 2022
by Eric Silva | Sep 22, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
I would like to share a few impressions from the IAA Transportation 2022. In a nutshell it was all about electrification, sustainability and digitalizationThe exposition had a wide and exhaustive range of applications on display from solutions from the past to new and...
CertX at the OSS 5 Conference and Expo
by Eric Silva | Sep 19, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the OSS 5 conference and expo in Berlin 29-30. September 2022. We are looking forward to interesting discussion, inspiring presentation on Operational, Functional & System Safety for Highly to Fully Automated Vehicles!Looking forward to...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.2 – Three-steps approach for UN ECE R155 approval
by Kilian Marty | Aug 22, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the second episode of a blog series covering cyber security trends and best practices to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for implementing State-of-the-Art technics and meeting required compliance levels. Previous episode Cyber Security for...
CertX at the Autonomous Vehicle Technology Conference and Expo
by Eric Silva | Jun 6, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Technology conference and expo in Stuttgart 21.-23. June 2022. We will feature our strategic partnership and as well talk about our partnership with FAKT GmbH for the homologation of cars according to UNECE...
Cyber Security for Road Vehicles – EP.1 – With great powers comes great responsibility
by Kilian Marty | May 30, 2022 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is the first episode of a new series covering hot topics of cyber security to be addressed by automotive stakeholders for meeting required compliance levels and implementing best security practices. As introduced in one of our previous articles (see UNECE...
Munich Re acquires stake in CertX
by Eric Silva | May 17, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity, Drones, Functional Safety, Machinery, Railways
Munich Re acquires stake in CertX New service for evaluating AI risks in cooperation with Munich Re and Fraunhofer CertX will be ready for certifications required by the EU artificial intelligence act Download the press release as pdfCertX is pleased to announce that...
CertX at the VECS 2022 Conference and Expo
by Eric Silva | May 2, 2022 | AI, Automotive, Cybersecurity
CertX will be present at the VECS 2022 conference and expo in Gothenburg 17.-18. May. 2022. We will feature our very recently signed partnership with FAKT GmbH for the homologation of cars according to UNECE 155/156/157 and more exciting stuff about AI! Stay tuned for...
UNECE WP.29 / R155 – How Cyber Security will impact the automotive market as of June 2022
by Kilian Marty | Apr 1, 2021 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
Autonomous driving, connected cars, electric vehicles, and shared mobility—have dominated the agenda of automotive industry leaders in recent years. These innovations, built on the digitization of in-car systems, the extension of car IT systems into the back end, and...
The AWARD-H2020 Project has taken off
by Eric Silva | Jan 22, 2021 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The European project “AWARD” to autonomize heavy-vehicles for logistics operations launched remotely 21 January 2020 - The 29-partner strong consortium that makes up the “All Weather Autonomous Real logistics operations and Demonstrations” (AWARD) project came...
CertX as partner in the AWARD H2020 EU Project
by Eric Silva | Dec 7, 2020 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
The European Commission, through the H2020 framework program, has awarded a funding grant of nearly €20 million for a 29-partner strong consortium to develop and demonstrate driverless heavy-duty vehicles in harsh weather conditions for real-logistics operations....
Automotive Cyber Security & Compliance – Why and How
by Kilian Marty | Oct 26, 2020 | Automotive, Cybersecurity
This article is not only for organization that have already been hacked… even if you (wrongly) think that you are not potentially subject to cyber attacks, future regulations and upcoming homologation schemes already planned to integrate cyber security as core...
Four ways to improve confidence in your in-house software
by Eric Silva | Sep 11, 2019 | Automotive, Drones, Machinery, Railways
Trace your requirements Tracing your requirements is not only a way to comply with your standards, it’s a powerful tool to ensure your software’s safety. By implementing a good requirement tracking system, every engineer knows the source of each specification...
CertX at the CES Asia
by Eric Silva | Jun 6, 2019 | Automotive, Cybersecurity, Drones
We will be present on the CES Asia at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) and like to welcome you at our booth 6409 in hall 5. We are looking forward to interesting discussions about autonomous systems, the technologies involved and the related safety...
Standardisation of ISO SOTIF had a significant progress
by Eric Silva | Nov 18, 2018 | Automotive
The head of the automotive department of CertX has been nominated by the Swiss Association for Standardisation (SNV) as the only Swiss delegate to participate to the ISO standardisation group for ISO 21448. In the last meeting held in Pisa in November 2018 the group...