Automated Ontology-Based Security Requirements Identification for the Vehicular Domain

Abstract

Many electronic and electrical systems are now incorporated with modern vehicles to control functional safety. Lack of security protection mechanisms in vehicular design may lead to different ways of executing malicious attacks against the vehicular network. These attacks may have various types of negative consequences, such as safe vehicle operation. This work presents an ontology-based framework as a new automated approach to verify and validate security requirements against security issues in the vehicular domain. The system also applies a set of logical rules to identify a set of security requirements as a category of necessary security requirements that could be proposed to be integrated within the vehicle design to address a specific security issue.