Vehicle Integration Platform Security for Vendor Certificate Validation
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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 risks and complexities in end-to-end security and message validation.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle integration platform with a multi-layered security integration system that includes application programming interfaces for message communication, a security integration system for client authentication, and middleware layers for unified security approaches, implementing end-to-end message signing and certificate management to validate identities and origins of messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple third-party vendors with different security architectures are integrated into the vehicle integration platform, then the adaptability and versatility of the platform is improved, but the device complexity and security validation complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a security integration system as an intermediary layer between the vehicle integration platform and multiple third-party vendors. This mediator handles certificate validation, message signing verification, and security protocol management, allowing the platform to support diverse vendor security architectures without increasing core platform complexity. The security integration system translates and standardizes security communications from different vendors into a unified format that the platform can process consistently.
2Reliability
If end-to-end message signing and certificate validation are implemented across all client communications, then the reliability and security of communications is improved, but the processing time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary certificate validation and operational certificate issuance before clients begin communicating with the vehicle integration platform. The security integration system pre- validates client certificates, generates operational certificates, and establishes security credentials in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when actual message signing and validation occur during communication, the process is faster and more efficient because the heavy validation work has already been completed beforehand.
3Reliability
If a unified security integration system is implemented to provide consistent security across all vendors, then the reliability and consistency of security validation is improved, but the device complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the security integration system into distinct functional modules: certificate validation module, operational certificate generation module, message signing module, and verification module. Each module handles a specific aspect of security validation independently. This segmentation allows the unified security system to maintain consistency across all vendors while reducing overall complexity, as each module can be developed, tested, and maintained separately with well-defined interfaces between them.
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.