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CYBERENG - Training Cybersecurity Engineer and Manager Skills in Automotive - Experience

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As cybersecurity becomes an integral part of car homologation, the importance of cybersecurity skills in automotive project development teams becomes crucial. It is not just about the experts in automotive security themselves, but also about the whole system development team that needs to have the skills to be able to understand, cope with and make a cybersecurity integral part of the system. In this paper, we are giving an overview and experience of the content of training, the skill sets defined as the main needed skills/competence and knowledge of the automotive cybersecurity managers and engineers and present the pilot course implementation experience.

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Acknowledgements

The project ECQA Certified Cybersecurity Engineer and Manager – Automotive Sector (CYBERENG) is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Call 2020 Round 1 KA203 Programme of the European Union under the agreement 2020-1-CZ01-KA203-078494. This work is partially supported by Grants of SGS No. SP2023/065, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

We are grateful to a working party of Automotive suppliers SOQRATES [40] (https://soqrates.eurospi.net) who provided inputs for cybersecurity best practices. This includes: Dallinger Martin (ZF), Dorociak Rafal (HELLA), Dreves Rainer (Continental), Ekert Damjan (ISCN), Forster Martin (ZKW), Gasch Andreas (Cariad), Geipel Thomas (Robert BOSCH GmbH), Grave Rudolf (Tasking), Griessnig Gerhard (AVL), Gruber Andreas (CERTX), Habel Stephan (Continental), Karner Christoph (KTM), Kinalzyk Dietmar (AVL), König Frank (ZF), Kotselidis Christos (Pierer Innovation), Kurz-Griessnig Brigitte (Magna ECS), Lindermuth Peter (Magna Powertrain), Macher Georg (TU Graz), Mandic Irenka (Magna Powertrain), Mayer Ralf (BOSCH Engineering), Messnarz Richard (ISCN), Much Alexander (Elektrobit AG), Nikolov Borislav (MSG Plaut), Oehler Couso Daniel (Magna Powertrain), Pernpeintner Michael (Schäffler),

Riel Andreas (Grenoble iNP, ISCN Group), Rieß Armin (BBraun), Santer Christian (AVL), Shaaban Abdelkader (AIT), Schlager Christian (Magna ECS), Schmittner Christoph (AIT), Sebron Walter (MSG Plaut), Sechser Bernhard (Process Fellows), Sporer Harald Infineon), Stahl Florian (AVL), Wachter Stefan, Walker Alastair (MSG Plau), Wegner Thomas (ZF), Geyer Dirk (AVL), Dobaj Jürgen (TU Graz), Wagner Hans (MSG Systems), Aust Detlev, Zurheide Frank (KTM), Suhas Konanur (ENX), Erik Wilhelm (Kyburz), Noha Moselhy (VALEO), Jakub Stolfa (VSB TUO), Michael Wunder (Hofer Powertrain), Svatopluk Stolfa (VSB TUO).

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    Svatopluk Stolfa, Jakub Stolfa & Marek Spanyik

  2. I.S.C.N. GESMBH, Graz, Austria

    Richard Messnarz & Damjan Ekert

  3. Institute of Technical Informatics, TU GRAZ, Graz, Austria

    Georg Macher & Michael Krisper

  4. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria

    Christoph Schmittner & Shaaban Abdelkader

  5. Elektrobit, Erlangen, Germany

    Alexander Much

  6. Real Security d.o.o., Maribor, Slovenia

    Alen Salamun

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Stolfa, S. et al. (2023). CYBERENG - Training Cybersecurity Engineer and Manager Skills in Automotive - Experience. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42307-9_26

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