Modern vehicles are becoming increasingly capable of establishing connectivity that allows rich information exchange between them and road infrastructure units. The so-called “connected vehicles” paradigm can bring enormous potential for safer transportation only if the security needs against a variety of new threats are confidently satisfied.

The H2020 SAFERtec project (01/2017–12/2019) seeks to explore the vulnerabilities of connected vehicles in depth, apply innovative techniques for attack modeling, experimentally validate the quantification of security assurance levels, and contribute to relevant standards.

With a total budget of 3.8 million euros funded by the European Commission, nine partners from industry, SMEs, and academia, coming from six different countries, join their expertise to contribute to the vision of introducing a security assurance framework tailored for future networked vehicular technology.

ICCS serves as the project’s coordinator and holds a leading role in the development of an online toolkit that will realize the proposed assurance framework, as well as in the dissemination of the SAFERtec achievements. ICCS also actively participates in modeling (e.g., use case definition) and software development tasks (e.g., smartphone apps).