{"id":5426,"date":"2017-05-16T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/to-stop-hackers-from-invading-self-driving-cars-karamba-security-raises-12-million.html"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:25:04","slug":"to-stop-hackers-from-invading-self-driving-cars-karamba-security-raises-12-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/to-stop-hackers-from-invading-self-driving-cars-karamba-security-raises-12-million.html","title":{"rendered":"To stop hackers from invading self-driving cars, Karamba Security raises $12 million"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By 2020, an estimated 75 percent of cars will be internet-connected worldwide, according to estimates from the FBI, Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That connectivity will allow drivers to tap into life-saving safety features and make self-driving cars a reality. But it also makes vehicles vulnerable to malicious hackers.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been a malevolent hack against connected cars en masse yet. And one Israeli startup called Karamba Security<\/a> wants to keep it that way. Karamba has raised a $12 million in a Series B round of funding led by the company\u2019s existing investors, Fontinalis Partners, which is Bill Ford\u2019s mobility-focused fund, and a firm that backs Israeli startups aiming to grow their business in the US, YL Ventures. Karamba also added new investors in their Series B round including: Paladin Capital Group, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Presidio Ventures and Asgent.<\/p>\n

Paladin\u2019s Managing Director Chris Inglis, who previously served as the Deputy Director and COO of the National Security Agency, said: \u201cThere are enormously positive transformational changes tech is bringing about. Think about the things autonomous cars will do for us! But we have to build security in from the beginning not as an applique afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

He lauded Karamba\u2019s approach to securing vehicles, and the fact that the company treats connected cars differently than general purpose computing devices, which are designed to run someone else\u2019s code. Predecessors to Karamba focused more on intrusion detection systems for vehicle security that mimicked the systems used for PC\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Karamba\u2019s software is built-in to a car, and can prevent hacks on an embedded system, explained the company\u2019s co-founder and chairman David Barzilai. Specifically, it is installed in a vehicle\u2019s ECU\u2019s, which are tiny computers that control various functions inside a car, from the brakes and to the navigation and on-board entertainment systems. Karamba\u2019s software locks down the ECU\u2019s factory settings, preventing the execution of any programs that would deviate from those settings.<\/p>\n

Barzilai said the company has raised 3 rounds of funding within about one year, bringing its total capital raised to $17 million to-date. Karamba has begun working with 16 new customers in the past 15 months in the cost-sensitive industry of automotive manufacturing. The company will use some of its funding to set up offices in Michigan, near major US automakers, but most of it will go to hiring, continued research and development and performance testing of vehicles.<\/p>\n

Barzilai said Karamba\u2019s goal is to keep malevolent hacks from ever effecting cars. Already, security researchers have demonstrated myriad ways to exploit apps and systems in vehicles to mess with drivers and their car\u2019s behavior. Fiat Chrysler had to issue a Jeep Cherokee recall after Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated their car\u2019s vulnerabilities. And Tesla had to issue major security upgrades after Tencent security researchers demonstrated a way to exploit the Wifi in a Tesla S to remotely activate the car\u2019s brakes, while the car was still in motion. But a mass attack, Barzilai hopes, does not have to be an eventuality.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: ANGELO MERENDINO\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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