Driverless Vehicles: Cybersecurity

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 26 April 2022.

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Photo of Chris Elmore Chris Elmore Opposition Whip (Commons), Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help deliver the National Cyber Strategy 2022 commitment to a Connected and Automated Vehicles Process for Assuring Safety and Security.

Photo of Trudy Harrison Trudy Harrison Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) is leading the CAVPASS programme which is developing and putting in place all the elements required to ensure safety and cyber resilience of self-driving vehicles on GB roads. By 2025 the full scheme will be in place that will cover all vehicle types.

Within CAVPASS, there is a specific workstream dealing with Cyber that has direct input from DfT’s cyber security experts and from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). CAVPASS commissions both R&D projects on Cyber and practical trials to test out solutions and enhance learning, for example using the Angoka cyber solutions as featured in the National Cyber Strategy document.

CAVPASS is working with industry to ensure internationally agreed regulations relating to cyber are implemented appropriately, including UNECE regulation 155 (Cyber Security and Cyber Security Management Systems) and regulation 157 (Software updates and software updates management systems).

CAVPASS also focuses on improving cyber skills within the motoring agencies that will ultimately have responsibility for implementing the new approval scheme, with a number of staff in the Vehicle Certification Agency already having gone through specific cyber training.

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