Upstream devoted to truck cybersecurity threats

According to Gartner, Inc, a leading research and advisory company, the number of connected vehicles on the road is expected to reach 250 million by 2020. The heavy-duty industry has seen connectivity grow inside the truck with fleet monitoring telematics, real-time navigation, and electronic logging devices (ELDs). However, questions continue to remain over the security of these new technologies and the vulnerabilities created on these vehicles. Upstream Security has developed a cloud-based cybersecurity platform to address truck security immediately.

“There are 100 million vehicles on the road today with some level of connectivity,” Jeff Lebowitz, VP of Market Development at Upstream, told Truck & Off-Highway Engineering. “So, to me, the biggest need in the industry is acceptance and understanding of the risk today, how it's going to dramatically increase in two years when there's 200 million vehicles connected, and what does that really mean?”