From ride-hailing apps like Uber to traditional manufacturers like General Motors, change is coming to the old-fashioned automobile from more directions than the Model T. Between turning cars into Wi-Fi-connected hotspots and integrating computers powerful enough to drive vehicles on their own, Motor City executives are starting to realize that they’ve overlooked a key area in the rise of the high-tech car: security.
In an interview with Fortune, Jeff Massimilla, chief product cybersecurity officer at GM, explained a new program his company has set up to provide an easier way for white hat hackers to report security flaws in GM software. Through a secure portal, hackers can send notifications straight to GM, and while the automaker doesn’t have a compensation plan in place at the moment, Massimilla said that is something that may change in the future.
“We’re putting a lot of technology into our cars,” Massimilla told Fortune. “There’s a responsibility obviously to put an appropriate level of security with those technologies. There wasn’t one single event that prompted this action. We have been maturing our cybersecurity program within GM for sometime now. And as we’ve matured, we have had some interaction with researchers.” For the full article click here
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