Panasonic and McAfee agreed to jointly start building a Vehicle Security Operation Center (Vehicle SOC) to commercialise vehicle security monitoring services. To protect connected vehicles around the world against cyber-attacks, the companies will build vehicle SOCs that enable accurate detection and early response to attacks and help strengthen cyber-security measures in the automotive industry.
Panasonic has already been operating SOCs for factories since 2016 to protect systems and networks that manage and control factory equipment and production processes against cyber-attacks. For automobiles, they have developed an Automotive Intrusion Detection System that mounts on a vehicle, detects the occurrence of a cyber-attack and the type of attack, and transmits analysis data to the vehicle SOC and a Security Information and Event Management System that analyses and visualises a large amount of data received from the Automotive Intrusion Detection System in the vehicle SOC.
McAfee said it supports SOCs and managed security services and has the know-how cultivated by building and operationally supporting numerous SOCs. The company will bring these together and start building vehicle SOCs to monitor cyber-attacks that may be conducted against vehicles around the world.
