Glossary · Verification & Validation

Penetration Testing

Authorised, scope-bounded attacker simulation against a defined target.

Automotive penetration tests target ECUs, gateways, telematics units, OTA backends, or full vehicle architectures. They combine reverse engineering, protocol-level attacks, hardware probing (UART/JTAG, glitching), and software exploitation, and produce findings prioritised by feasibility and impact for the cybersecurity team.

Related terms

Fuzz Testing
Validation technique that feeds malformed or random inputs to surface robustness defects.
Vulnerability Monitoring
Continual ingestion of public and private vulnerability information against an organisation's asset inventory.

Automotive penetration-testing methodology

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Penetration Testing

Fuzz Testing

Vulnerability Monitoring