Vehicle Integration Platform Certificate Mediation for Multi-Vendor Security
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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
1Reliability
If a unified security integration system is implemented to authenticate multiple vendors, then security reliability is improved, but device complexity increases due to multi-layered authentication architecture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a security integration system that acts as an intermediary layer between the vehicle integration platform and multiple third-party vendors. This mediator validates client certificates, determines client identities, and generates appropriate operational certificates, thereby centralizing security management and improving reliability without requiring each vendor to implement complex security protocols independently
Solution Approach 2:
The security integration system performs multiple functions within a single unified architecture: validating client certificates, determining client identities, generating certificate signing requests, and issuing operational certificates. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate security systems for each vendor, improving reliability while managing complexity through consolidation
2Adaptability or versatility
If vendor-specific security configurations are supported to accommodate different security capabilities, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple security integration layers
Solution Approach 1:
The security integration system dynamically adapts its behavior based on the specific vendor and client certificate being validated. The system determines client identity and generates appropriate operational certificates based on the vendor's security capabilities and requirements, allowing the security architecture to flexibly accommodate different vendors without requiring static, pre-configured security layers for each vendor
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes security parameters dynamically during the authentication process. Based on the validated client certificate and determined client identity, the system generates certificate signing requests with appropriate parameters and issues operational certificates tailored to the specific vendor's security configuration, enabling adaptability while managing complexity through parameter-driven flexibility
Data Source
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.