Auto-ISAC and Google partner to boost automotive sector cybersecurity

Ever since Carl Benz patented what is widely considered the first practical automobile and Henry Ford’s industrial techniques drove production scalability, consumer behavior and evolving preferences have driven improvements in performance, safety, and reliability. We are now at a phase of automotive development where continued automobile featurization — digital apps that provide the car with additional capabilities — heavily depends on cloud computing, high speed networks, and artificial intelligence.  

As the car continues to evolve in the cloud era, and with 1.5 billion automobiles on the road today, we’re seeing a broad spectrum of bad actors increasingly targeting the automotive sector’s cloud environments, from factories to showrooms to consumer vehicles.

Today, Google Cloud is proud to join the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC) as an Innovator Partner, a move that significantly deepens our commitment to the automotive and transportation sectors. The Auto-ISAC is a global community ...