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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
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Top Real-World Threats Facing Connected Cars and Fleets

[Team Upstream, Feb 15, 2018] Modern connected cars are a complex amalgamation of embedded systems, featuring on average over 160 million lines of code. Multiple,…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
March 1, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Telematics-based insurance

The Security Car Industry: A Disruptive Journey to a New Business Model

The automotive industry is accelerating at speed towards a technology-centric future. Disruption is coming at every turn from new players like Tesla and even tech…
ODED YARKONI

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

The Keys to Securing Automotive Fleets: KPMG Report

[By Yoav Levy, Co-Founder and CEO] Between SpaceX, Tesla, the Boring Company and many other initiatives, Elon Musk is, to say the least, busy.  Despite…
YOAV LEVY

CEO and Co-founder
January 28, 2018
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Securing the Weakest Link in Connected Cars: Telematics Data Servers

The automotive industry has transformed itself in recent years and is on the verge of an even greater leap into the future. In the new…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
November 27, 2017
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Huge Risk – Fraud in the Smart Mobility Space

Much has been said about the threat cyber attacks pose to connected cars, however, there are other significant risks for companies using such vehicles. Many…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
November 9, 2017
  • Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence and Automotive Fleet Security Go Hand-in-Hand

Machine learning is an effective tool for fleet cybersecurity and deep insights One of the most common buzzwords in the technology industry today is AI,…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
October 31, 2017
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence

Fleet Security: The Sum of All Car Hacking Fears

Elon Musk recently voiced the darkest fears of automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and fleet managers, when he said that “one of the biggest concerns for…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
September 13, 2017
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

What Does the GDPR Have to Do with Car OEMs?

5 Insights for a smooth regulatory ride Chances are that you’re running into the acronym GDPR more and more. But unless you’re a seasoned lawyer…
ODED YARKONI

VP Innovation
July 10, 2017