The Upstream Blog
- Compliance
- Cybersecurity
The New Front Lines: Navigating the EU’s 2026 Mandate for Connected Vehicle Security
The automotive industry has reached a definitive “point of no return.” In the first half of 2026, the EU’s NIS Cooperation Group released its seminal…
Oscar Törnebrant
- Cybersecurity
- Physical AI
The Kinetic Responsibility: Governance and Resilience in the Age of Physical AI
In the traditional cybersecurity paradigm, a breach is measured in exfiltrated terabytes and service downtime. In the era of Physical AI, the metric of failure…
YONATAN APPEL
CTO & Co-Founder
- Proactive Quality Detection
Driving Intelligent Quality in the Software-Defined Vehicle Era
In today’s Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs) era, ensuring vehicle quality and performance is no longer a post-production task—it’s a continuous, data-driven process. Upstream’s Proactive Quality Detection (PQD) solution leverages…
Arnon Shafir, Ashok Rao, and Luke Harvey
- AI in Mobilty
- Cybersecurity
- Mobility API Security
LLMs are Turning APIs Into Decision Surfaces
Insights from Upstream’s recent webinar with Ford’s Dan O’Reilly “For years, APIs were just integration points,” Dan O’Reilly explained during a recent live webinar with…
Lara Doel
Strategic Product Marketing
- MobilityAI Community
MobilityAI is Here and Gaining Momentum
On the evening of March 17, 2026, nearly 60 people gathered at Ann Arbor SPARK for something that hadn’t existed before: the inaugural meetup of…
Jennifer Tisdale
Senior Director - Strategic Engagements, North America
- Cybersecurity
- Threat Intelligence
The After-market Achilles’ Heel: Recent Shutdowns Highlight Ecosystem-Wide Cyber Risks
In mid-March 2026, a US provider of ignition interlock devices (IIDs) reported a major cybersecurity incident that disabled approximately 150,000 devices across 46 states for…
Yaniv Maimon & Elad Robb
- Connected Vehicle
- Cybersecurity
- Physical AI
Eliminating the Automotive Data Blind Spot: Upstream Integrates with Splunk
Unifying Automotive and Physical AI XDR for the Modern SOC As the mobility and physical AI ecosystem expands, cybersecurity experts and SOC analysts face a…
Craig Ginsberg
- Compliance
- Connected Vehicle
- Cybersecurity
The SELF DRIVE Act Returns: Why Congress Is Taking Another Shot at AV Regulation
Congress is making its third attempt at federal autonomous vehicle legislation. The SELF DRIVE Act, introduced in February 2026, follows failed efforts in 2017 and…
Jennifer Tisdale
Senior Director - Strategic Engagements, North America
- Physical AI
Turning fleet data into decisions in the Physical AI era
Connected vehicles have moved the industry into a new operating reality. Products are no longer defined at SOP (Start of Production). They evolve in the…
Sagi Erel
VP Architecture