Towards a Cooperative ITS Vehicle Application Oriented Security Framework

Automotive industry is interested to ITS as it provides attractive services for connected vehicles aiming at creating a new and very promising business market. However, the security remains a major challenge for the ITS deployment as several critical threats has been identified. In this paper, we present our Cooperative ITS Vehicle Application Oriented Security Framework CIVAS for vehicle ITS stations. Our focus is given first to ITS vehicle security requirements and constraints. Then, we provide an overview of the “Defense-in-Depth” model that we adapted for securing ITS vehicle. The proposed security framework follows a modular design and is application oriented. To illustrate the interaction between designed CIVAS layers, we consider a vehicle stationary as example of a road safety use case.