Attacks or No, Security Firms Race to Connected Vehicle Market

The article reviews the growing market and responses for automotive cybersecurity, noting Symantec's new anomaly-detection product, startups like Karamba, and collaborations to secure V2X communications. It references prior research demonstrations (e.g., the Jeep Cherokee CAN-bus takeover) and disclosed vulnerabilities in vehicle hotspots, while emphasizing that real-world attacks remain rare, that long vehicle development cycles slow deployment of protections, and that automakers often lack mature vulnerability-handling processes.