| |February 20188ARE WE READY TO EMBRACE SECURITY?By Sanjay Gupta, Vice President & India Country Manager, NXPSanjay has a wide range experience in developing and leading high performance global teams for high complexity IC Design, Embedded Software development and Business development. He has Domain expertise for multiple Customer Applications like Automotive, Security, Networking, Industrial and Wireless.W hen internet was created, security was not kept in mind. And now, 20 years after its creation, we are thrown down the gauntlet with making it most reliable and secure ­ but that comes at a cost. According to a study by NASSCOM, the global cybersecurity market is expected to reach approximately USD 190 billion by 2025 from USD 85 billion, and will be driven primarily by the increasing digitization wave and smartphone penetration, leading to newer attack surfaces.The automotive industry is rapidly evolving and the car is transformed from a simple mode of transport to a personalized mobile information hub. Until recently, cars have been isolated from their environment and from the internet, but the Connected Car will soon feature various wireless technologies like V2X communications, telematics, Near Field Communication (NFC) and multi-standard digital broadcast reception, complemented by ADAS systems that implement autonomous driving features.Cyber attacks pose a threat to the dependability and security of the car ­ the hacker can possibly take control over the car ­ as well as to the privacy of the driver ­ the vehicle data can be used to build a profile of its user. Therefore, steps need to be taken now: the Connected Car must be secured, to ensure the correct functioning of all in-vehicle systems, as well as user privacy. This implies a paradigm shift in the design of in-vehicle electronics. Traditionally, there has been a strong focus on safety, meaning that for example the brakes should function correctly under all circumstances. Safety will remain equally important in the future, but the increasing amount of electronics and software in vehicles will additionally require security, to protect the vehicle against hackers.The Data Driven EraWith the proliferation in the number of devices, there will be one thing in common: data. We can consider data as the fuel to drive the IoT era. But these petabytes and zettabytes of data can also be a latent security nightmare for manufacturers, infrastructure controllers as well as the end consumers. The question then arises, how can we trust the devices we use, the networks they connect to and the devices that they interact with? When security is not built in to the technology, your privacy is only granted at the discretion of whoever has your data. They must choose not to associate you with it. Privacy by choice is a very weak proposition of privacy.We have another option ­ privacy by design ­ which is Sanjay Guptaexpert opinion
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