Moving Minds: Giuseppe Serio hosts Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hof

The automotive industry plans to support a vehicle for 10 years. European regulation now requires cybersecurity protection for its entire operational life, which can be 30 to 40 years. In this Moving Minds episode, Giuseppe Serio sits down with Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hof, Vice President of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, to examine what that gap actually demands of the industry.

Prof. Hof’s perspective spans military cryptography, industrial IoT, and Automotive cybersecurity, and it has produced a simple conviction: the automotive industry is not as unique as it thinks, and the solutions it is still searching for often already exist in adjacent domains.

In this conversation, they explore why toolchain dependencies are a 30-year liability that almost no OEM is currently managing, how forgotten attack surfaces inside battery management systems and embedded AI sensors are expanding beyond what most threat models capture, and why designing for crypto agility before the post-quantum transition arrives is a decision that has to be made at the ECU hardware level, not patched in later.