Cybersecurity Across Disciplines:
Automotive Security and Car Hacking
May 8, 2023
9AM - 4PM Mountain Time
In-Person at the Xponential Conference*
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th St, Denver, CO 80202
Room: 403/404 Session Number: XPO23-NC01
*To attend the workshop, you must also register to attend the conference. NCAT will provide additional instructions for no-cost registration to eligible participants to attend the full Xponential 2023 event prior to the workshop. Eligible participants include faculty currently teaching credit courses (full-time or adjunct) at a regionally accredited U.S. community or technical college. For questions, reach out to NCAT directly at NCAT@northlandcollege.edu.
Who Should Attend:
Community college faculty from both cyber and other fields, including Aerospace, Automotive, Marine and Geospatial Technologies and associated areas related to Autonomous Technologies (i.e. Automation, Manufacturing, etc.). NO Cyber or IT Background/Experience is required to participate in this workshop. It is designed to explore the impact of Cyber across the autonomous technologies technician workforce. Other university faculty and industry professionals are welcome to participate but may not be eligible for stipends supported by the NSF ATE Program.
About the Workshop:
Most modern vehicles connect to devices around them through Vehicle to Everything (V2X) technologies. As vehicles advance with more autonomous capabilities, digital systems, and automation, their attack surface increases exponentially, making them increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Automobile hacking is a fascinating area of penetration testing and hacking. This workshop will expand faculty knowledge and the ability to incorporate new cybersecurity content in existing classes. Attendees will need to bring a laptop.
Workshop Objectives:
- Describe the common vulnerabilities associated with vehicles and autonomous systems.
- Describe potential impacts of vulnerabilities associated with vehicles and autonomous systems.
- Describe the communication media used to control vehicles and autonomous systems.
- Demonstrate the use of vehicles and autonomous vehicle control applications and simulators.
- Demonstrate attacking vehicles and autonomous systems.
- Identify types of security measures that work best in automated systems.
Stipend:
A travel stipend ranging from $250 to $1,500 is available to eligible faculty traveling from outside the area of the event (greater than 60 miles) to assist with transportation costs to attend the workshop.
To be eligible for the stipend, you must:
Facilitator:
Dr. Bryson Payne is an award-winning cyber coach, author, TEDx speaker, and the founding Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education (now the Institute for Cyber Operations) at the University of North Georgia, an NSA-DHS Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. He is a tenured professor of computer science at UNG, where he has taught aspiring coders and cyber professionals since 1998, including coaching UNG’s #1-in-the-nation 2019 & 2020 NSA Codebreaker Challenge cyber operations teams.
Dr. Payne was recognized by the UNG Alumni Association as the 2021 Distinguished Professor, and by the cybersecurity industry association, EC-Council, as the 2021 Academic Instructor of the Year. He has been awarded the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service medal from U.S. Army Cadet Command, the University System of Georgia Chancellor’s Service Excellence Leader of the Year Award, and the Order of Thor medal from the Military Cyber Professionals Association.
This event is funded by a National Science Foundation grant # 2054724