Vehicle Integration Platform Security for Multi-Vendor Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles face challenges in secure communication infrastructure, particularly in integrating third-party vendors with different security architectures and capabilities, leading to security risks and complexity in multi-vendor environments.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle integration platform with a multi-layered security integration system that implements end-to-end message signing, validates client certificates, and generates operational certificates to authenticate clients, ensuring secure communication between autonomous vehicles and service provider infrastructure while accommodating varying vendor security configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a multi-vendor environment is used to provide vehicle services, then service versatility and provider options are improved, but security risks and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a security integration system as an intermediary layer between the vehicle integration platform and third-party vendors. This mediator validates client certificates, determines client identities and request origins, generates certificate signing requests, and obtains operational certificates. By placing this intermediary security layer, the system maintains service versatility from multiple vendors while ensuring unified security validation, thus resolving the contradiction between service adaptability and security reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If third-party vendors with different security architectures are integrated, then service provider options are improved, but security complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The security integration system implements a universal certificate-based authentication mechanism that works across all third-party vendors regardless of their individual security architectures. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including certificate validation, identity determination, origin tracking, and operational certificate management. This universal approach allows diverse vendors to integrate with the platform without requiring complex custom security implementations for each vendor, thus reducing overall security architecture complexity while maintaining vendor integration versatility.
3Reliability
If certificate validation and authentication operations are implemented, then client authentication capability is improved, but processing time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary certificate validation and identity determination during the initial connection phase, before actual vehicle operations begin. The security integration system validates client certificates and determines identities upfront, generating certificate signing requests and obtaining operational certificates in advance. This preliminary authentication approach ensures strong security verification while reducing processing time during actual vehicle operations, as the authentication framework is already established before service execution.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are directed to improvements for secure communications between client systems and a vehicle integration platform associated with a service provider entity. In one example, a communication infrastructure is provided which includes a vehicle integration platform that includes a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to facilitate communication among clients. The communication infrastructure includes a security integration system which is configured to receive and validate a client certificate forwarded to the vehicle integration platform from a client and determine an identity of the client and an origin of a request associated with the client certificate. The security integration system is configured to generate a certificate signing request associated with the client certificate based in part on the identity of the client and obtain an operational certificate for the client based in part on the certificate signing request to establish ability for client authentication within the vehicle integration platform.