Cyber security matters. Products are hacked, in order to misuse, abuse and confuse. Unlike other technologies which are mastered by specific teams and functions, security is a base technology which belongs to the body of knowledge of each single software developer. Learn about some best practices for security engineering in this blog... Sophisticated functionality and ever-increasing perfection of embedded and distributed IT systems have been made possible through an increasing amount of interconnected components. Open interfaces, standardized platforms, and a variety of heterogeneous networks drive complexity and security risks. For any given system it is only a question of time before the resulting security vulnerabilities are systematically identified and exploited at the harm and expense of users and manufacturers. Security is a quality attribute which interacts heavily with other such attributes, including availability, safety, and robustness. It is the sum of all of the attributes of an information system or product which contributes towards ensuring that processing, storing, and communicating of information sufficiently protects confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. Cyber security implies that it is not possible to do anything with the processed or managed information which is not explicitly intended by the specification of the embedded system. Currently used security engineering concepts, such as proprietary subsystems, the protection of components, firewalls between components, and the validation of specific features are necessary basics but insufficient to ensure end-to-end security at the systems-level. Intelligent attack scenarios evolve from different directions, such as attacks on unprotected networks, introduction of dangerous code segments through open interfaces, changes to configurations, and prove that security has to become a topic throughout the entire organization and with high management attention. For more details : POS Solution Video