Episode Details

William Dalton, VP and Managing Director for North America and Europe from VicOne, the automotive cybersecurity subsidiary of Trend Micro, talks with host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer of Sonatus about the state of automotive cybersecurity. He addresses the unique challenges and opportunities posed by software-defined vehicles (SDVs), how to enhance vehicle security with proactive security measures, and intrusion detection and prevention (IPDS) systems. He discusses their work to support their white-hat hacking challenge "Pwn2Own Automotive", which encourages ethical hackers to identify zero-day vulnerabilities in the automotive sector. This episode was filmed live at AutoTech Detroit in Novi, Michigan, in June 2025

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Vehicle Cybersecurity
00:45 Guest Introduction
03:49 Background of VicOne
05:42 Transition to Software-Defined Vehicles
08:08 Cybersecurity in Software-Defined Vehicles
08:59 Deployment of Cybersecurity Solutions
14:55 Integration of Cybersecurity Solutions
17:36 Pwn2Own
18:23 Understanding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
20:14 Pwn2Own Competition Approach
23:10 Automotive Vulnerability Disclosure
24:46 Cybersecurity Threats in Other Industries
29:45 The Role of AI in Vehicle Cybersecurity
32:13 Conclusion and Future Outlook