A Zero Trust Architecture for Secure Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are the future of personal and public transportation. As CAVs increasingly rely on cyber-based control, navigation, and communication, security has become a pressing concern in future transportation systems. The complexity and inter-connectedness of CAVs offer myriad opportunities for security compromise, potentially resulting in unsafe operation or leakage of confidential information about the user. Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) for networks have emerged as a fundamentally new way of approaching security. It offers new paradigms for defining and enforcing policy through various means rooted in modeling trust relationships. The zero-trust security model does not automatically trust any user or device inside or outside the network perimeter. Instead, it enforces a set of policies (i.e., rules that are dynamically maintained and enforced) to verify and ensure the security of resources. ZTA can aid in reducing potential risks in CAVs by guaranteeing that only approved users and devices can access sensitive systems and data. This project will investigate how ZTA can be adapted to CAVs to provide fundamental protection for individual components within CAV systems and their supporting infrastructure.

• Record URL:
  https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/tracr/research/projects.html

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $278865
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552344812

  69A3552348317

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Clemson University

  College of Engineering and Science
  109 Riggs Hall, Box 340901
  Clemson, SC  United States  29631-0901

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR)

  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC  United States 
• Project Managers:

  Chowdhury, Mashrur

• Performing Organizations:

  Clemson University

  College of Engineering and Science
  109 Riggs Hall, Box 340901
  Clemson, SC  United States  29631-0901

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Principal Investigators:

  Cheng, Long

  Zhang, Zhenkai

  Comert, Gurcan

• Start Date: 20240101
• Expected Completion Date: 20241231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Computer security; Connected vehicles; System architecture
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01907737
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552344812, 69A3552348317
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 9 2024 7:37PM