Certified Professional Level Training for Automotive Cyber Security

Training duration: 3 Days

Course Overview

This comprehensive training equips professionals with the essential knowledge and skills to manage automotive cybersecurity challenges in line with the ISO 21434 standard. Across three days of in-depth instruction and one day of examination, participants explore the entire cybersecurity lifecycle—from threat and risk analysis through conceptual design to implementation and validation.

What Will You Learn?

The automotive industry faces ever-evolving quality challenges due to increased digitisation, connectivity and vehicle automation. Modern production vehicles and components must be developed with automotive cybersecurity fully integrated throughout the entire lifecycle.

This interactive course provides profound insights into the requirements of the automotive cybersecurity standard ISO 21434. You will understand how threat and risk analysis connect to security concepts, stakeholder expectations, security specifications, and the verification and validation process throughout the lifecycle.

The certification follows a multi-stage, practical approach aligned with industry implementation, ensuring you gain valuable hands-on experience and comprehension.

Course outline

The ISO/SAE 21434 training is a comprehensive 3-day program covering basic to advanced industry concepts. Once you complete the training successfully, you will be awarded with a Certified Automotive Cybersecurity Practitioner (CACSP) Certificate.

Day 1: Introduction & Fundamentals

• Why automotive cybersecurity matters
• Analysis of current cybersecurity threats and challenges within automotive
• Distinguishing between Safety and Security
• Cybersecurity fundamentals
• Advances in automotive electronics
• Identification of attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and risk areas in automotive systems
• Cybersecurity goals: authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, availability
• Overview of standards development and best practices
• Understanding the relationship with Information Security Management Systems (ISMS)
• Review of UNECE WP.29 regulations No. 155 (CSMS) and No. 156 (SUMS)
• Introduction to ISO 21434: framework, scope, provisions, objectives, and annexes

Days 2 & 3: Detailed ISO/SAE 21434 Training

• Management (Clauses 5 & 6): Organisational and project-level cybersecurity management aligning with ISO 21434 requirements
• Distributed Cybersecurity Activities (Clause 7): Coordinating cybersecurity across the automotive supply chain
• Continual Cybersecurity Activities (Clause 8): Ongoing risk management strategies and mitigation
• Concept Phase (Clauses 9 & 15): Item definition, security concepts, security objectives, cybersecurity requirements; threat modelling and risk assessment including TARA methodology with practical exercises
• Product Development and Validation (Clauses 10 & 11): Application of the V-Model, system, hardware and software development, plus verification and validation techniques
• Post-Development Phases (Clauses 12-14): Production, operation, maintenance and decommissioning considerations
• Cybersecurity Testing Approaches: Vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, fuzz testing

Who Should Attend?

This course is highly suited to managers, software and hardware developers, project leaders, quality representatives, test engineers, and any professionals involved in automotive cybersecurity.

Learning & Career Benefits

• Gain the ability to recognise and address cybersecurity from concept to implementation
• Hands-on experience with secure communication, diagnostics, and bootloader processes
• Practical skills in performing cybersecurity verification and validation
• Competence to plan, monitor, execute and assess product development according to ISO 21434
• Enhance your career prospects as a cybersecurity professional within OEMs, Tier 1s and suppliers

Examination & Certification

Exam Duration: 120 minutes

Format: Multiple choice questions

Certification: Upon passing the exam, participants earn the globally recognised Certified Automotive Cybersecurity Practitioner (CACSP) certificate

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