Connected vehicles, systemic risk and national security: The need for India’s automotive cyber resilience framework
By Mohit Anand, Founder & CEO, Mitigata
In July, the government asked Apple and Google to pull seven apps from their stores. The apps let owners of certain electric vehicles monitor their battery packs over Bluetooth, checking charge level, voltage and cycle life. Someone had worked out that the same connection could be used to disable a vehicle’s battery remotely, without the owner knowing. The Ministry of Heavy Industries followed with an advisory to SIAM and the component makers’ body, asking manufacturers to audit their battery management systems, review default configurations and check authentication.
Nobody called it a national security incident, and on its own, it probably wasn’t one. But it is a useful marker for what has actually changed. A decade ago, when a vehicle’s electronics went wrong, it was one car’s problem, nothing more. Today, the same electronics sit behind an app, a cloud backend and a charging...
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