Moving Minds: Giuseppe Serio hosts Vivek Venkatachalam

Vivek Venkatachalam has spent his career securing complex automotive products across the full vehicle lifecycle, with experience at OEMs and Tier-1s including Ford and CNH. His work sits at the intersection of software-defined vehicle architectures, cloud backends, and product security, where the line between software and safety-critical system has all but disappeared.

In this Moving Minds conversation, Giuseppe Serio speaks with Vivek about the most consequential misconception in Automotive cybersecurity today: that the job ends at homologation.

They explore why pre-launch testing is bounded by a team’s imagination while real-world attackers are not, what it means to carry security responsibility across a vehicle’s entire operational life, and how a well-defined, adaptable process is the most undervalued tool available to product security leaders. Vivek also shares his perspective on where AI is already changing how teams prioritize risk, and why the security community’s greatest asset is its willingness to share intelligence across company lines.

This episode is a grounded, experience-driven look at what continuous cybersecurity responsibility actually demands, and what the industry still needs to close the gap.