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When API Security Fails, Mobility Breaks: Lessons from 2025’s Cyber Incidents

With just over three months left in 2025, one thing is already clear. One of the weakest links in connected mobility is APIs. Oversights that looked minor on…

LARA DOEL

Strategic Product Marketing
  • Compliance
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

Last Week in Tel Aviv Was all About Smart Transportation and Securing Connected Mobility

We were there to listen, talk, and hand out branded bananas. This past week in Tel Aviv has proved once again that the future of…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
May 29, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Emerging Data Privacy Regulation Brings OEMs and Consumers Closer Together Than Ever Before

Recent data breaches, hacks and misuse of personal data following the emergence of the connected car, have increased public awareness to data privacy, and now,…
TEAM UPSTREAM
May 23, 2018
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Why AI and ML Offer the Best Protection Against Cyber Attacks on Connected Cars

Like all industries, the automotive industry is facing a major challenge due to digitalization: Big Data coming from multiple connected sources is only getting bigger,…
TEAM UPSTREAM
May 16, 2018
  • Cybersecurity
  • Mobility API Security

The Danger of Connected Car Mobile Apps to OEMs and Smart Mobility Services

Mobile car apps in recent years have become increasingly integrative in the smart mobility industry. The benefits for OEMs and car-sharing services are clear: the…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
May 9, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Redefining Connected Car Cybersecurity

[By Dan Sahar, VP of Product] “Cybersecurity is not top of mind for us”. Just a few short years, chances are this is a common…
DAN SAHAR

VP of Products
May 1, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Going Beyond IT Cybersecurity Technologies to Protect the Connected Fleet

For 30 years, hackers have devised an unending stream of creative methods to gain a foothold into endpoints, servers and IT networks. Now, the connected…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
April 3, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Cutting the Lifeline to the Fleet. Not on Upstream’s Watch.

Car manufacturers and managed fleets use a wealth of data to gain visibility into their connected cars and fleets. Smart use of telematics data, which…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
March 22, 2018
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

Ten Hacks in Ten Weeks- is 2018 the Year of the Automotive Cyber Threat?

The first 10 weeks of 2018 have already produced a wide and sophisticated range of automotive hacks for some of the world’s leading brands. As…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
March 9, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Infographic: Top Real-World Threats Facing Connected Cars and Fleets

Modern connected cars are a complex amalgamation of powerful on-board computers and connectivity. There is an ever-growing range of cyber security risks facing the connected…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
March 1, 2018