Global Automaker Partners with Upstream to Enhance Fleet Cybersecurity

Overview:

A leading global automotive OEM partnered with Upstream to secure its expanding fleet of connected vehicles against the growing scale and complexity of cybersecurity risks. As the OEM faces international regulatory requirements, including UNECE R155/R156 and ISO/SAE 21434, this collaboration marks a critical step toward ensuring compliance across its global fleet.

Upstream was selected due to the platform’s cloud-native architecture, seamlessly integrated into the OEM’s AWS environment. With no hardware or software footprint in vehicles, Upstream’s solution provides robust, real-time threat detection and mitigation at scale.

IndustryAutomotive OEM
Company size150,000+
About The Global Automotive OEM successfully scaled its cybersecurity operations, ensuring real-time threat detection, regulatory compliance, and seamless management of its growing global connected fleet.

The Challenge:

As the OEM expands its global fleet of connected vehicles, it faces the challenge of achieving compliance with international cybersecurity regulations, including UNECE R155/R156 and ISO/SAE 21434.

Managing the complexity of its connected vehicle ecosystem, which includes millions of vehicles generating massive volumes of data from telematics, OTA updates, and APIs, has become more pressing. The OEM needed a robust, scalable, and efficient cybersecurity platform capable of real-time threat monitoring, detecting, and mitigating vehicle and smart mobility risks.

The Solution:

The OEM selected Upstream’s cloud-native detection and response (XDR) platform to secure its globally connected fleet.

Seamlessly integrated into the OEM’s AWS environment, the solution delivers real-time monitoring and advanced ML-based threat detection. This powerful combination ensures that the company’s connected vehicles remain safeguarded against cyber risks while benefiting from AWS’ scalability, efficiency, data protection, and global reach.

Key Features:

Vehicle Digital Twin: The Upstream platform creates a live digital twin of the vehicle fleet, integrating data streams from telematics, sensors, and connected applications allowing the OEM to monitor and analyze vehicle behavior in real-time.
Machine Learning-Based Threat Detection: Upstream’s ML-based models detect known and unknown anomalies, offering comprehensive coverage for both cybersecurity and connected analytics use cases.
No-Code Customization: The OEM can easily configure and deploy custom detectors for various threats, utilizing Upstream’s no-code tools to stay agile in response to emerging risks.
Seamless AWS Native Integration: Upstream’s platform uses AWS Graviton, Amazon S3, EKS, Postgres, and Redis, among other AWS services, to deliver fast, scalable, and cost-efficient cybersecurity.

The Result

Enhanced Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity platform empowers the OEM to identify and mitigate cyber threats in near real-time across its global fleet, ensuring both the security of vehicles and the seamless continuity of operations.
Regulatory Compliance
By utilizing Upstream’s vehicle security operations center (vSOC) managed services, the OEM ensured full compliance with UNECE R155 and ISO/SAE 21434 regulations, simplifying the complexity of managing global cybersecurity standards.
Scalability & Cost Efficiency
As the OEM’s connected fleet continues to grow, the platform scales effortlessly within AWS infrastructure, maintaining optimized cloud costs while managing an increasing volume of vehicles.

Additional Services to Expand Cybersecurity Posture

Leverage the Upstream Platform to monitor, optimize, and enhance connected vehicle fleets, smart mobility applications, and connected mobility devices.

API Security Mitigate data breaches and operational disruptions in near real-time to secure against known and unknown API threats.
Warranty & Recall Early Detection Reduce warranty and recall costs of connected and software-defined vehicles with a purpose-built solution, powered by ML predictive models.
Mobility Cyber Threat Intelligence Access mobility purpose-built cyber threat intelligence and risk assessment, based on custom collection, and analysis of automotive threat intel from multiple public, deep, and dark web sources.
Vehicle Security Operations Center Utilize the leading managed vSOC that protects millions of vehicles for OEMs worldwide.

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The Result

Enhanced Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity platform empowers the OEM to identify and mitigate cyber threats in near real-time across its global fleet, ensuring both the security of vehicles and the seamless continuity of operations.
Regulatory Compliance
By utilizing Upstream’s vehicle security operations center (vSOC) managed services, the OEM ensured full compliance with UNECE R155 and ISO/SAE 21434 regulations, simplifying the complexity of managing global cybersecurity standards.
Scalability & Cost Efficiency
As the OEM’s connected fleet continues to grow, the platform scales effortlessly within AWS infrastructure, maintaining optimized cloud costs while managing an increasing volume of vehicles.

Additional Services to Expand Cybersecurity Posture

Leverage the Upstream Platform to monitor, optimize, and enhance connected vehicle fleets, smart mobility applications, and connected mobility devices.

API Security Mitigate data breaches and operational disruptions in near real-time to secure against known and unknown API threats.
Warranty & Recall Early Detection Reduce warranty and recall costs of connected and software-defined vehicles with a purpose-built solution, powered by ML predictive models.
Mobility Cyber Threat Intelligence Access mobility purpose-built cyber threat intelligence and risk assessment, based on custom collection, and analysis of automotive threat intel from multiple public, deep, and dark web sources.
Vehicle Security Operations Center Utilize the leading managed vSOC that protects millions of vehicles for OEMs worldwide.