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FASTR seeks to enable innovation in automotive security by delivering the actionable applied and theoretical R&D needed now to drive systematic coordination of cybersecurity across the entire supply chain and ensure trust in connected and autonomous vehicles of the future. FASTR promotes a system-of-systems perspective of the vehicle with cybersecurity as the foundation and provides the neutral and open environment through which the increasingly diverse automotive ecosystem collaborates.

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Q&A with Hudson Thrift, FASTR Technical Steering Committee Chair

July 13, 2017

Q&A with Hudson Thrift, FASTR Technical Steering Committee Chair

July 13, 2017
Learn about Hudson Thrift’s views on FASTR's opportunities to help drive automotive security and move cybersecurity to the foundation of tomorrow's connected and autonomous vehicles.
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Toward a Coordinated, Industry-wide Cybersecurity Approach

June 19, 2017

Toward a Coordinated, Industry-wide Cybersecurity Approach

June 19, 2017
FASTR’s unique role in accelerating the realization of tomorrow’s “organically secure” vehicles is marshaling collaboration across the automotive ecosystem and has the goal of producing reference architectures, proofs of concept and other tangible research deliverables that automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can leverage in customizing requirements for their supply chains.
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FASTR Executive Director noted in recent Consumer Reports article

June 2, 2017

FASTR Executive Director noted in recent Consumer Reports article

June 2, 2017
FASTR Executive Director Craig Hurst was quoted in a Consumer Reports article published yesterday. Entitled "Your Car Could Be the Next Ransomware Target," the article discusses the importance of automotive security in an age when cars are increasingly computerized.
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Reducing Attack Surfaces, Hardening Cybersecurity

May 23, 2017

Reducing Attack Surfaces, Hardening Cybersecurity

May 23, 2017
With the WannaCry ransomware still lingering, the threat of a car held for ransom has begun to receive widespread attention beyond the automotive cyber security community. Ransomware attacks provide thieves easy money, and connected cars are potentially lucrative targets. Could it happen?
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