Why This Course?
Modern vehicles are no longer just mechanical products. They are connected platforms with mobile apps, cloud APIs, telematics, dealer portals, over-the-air updates, supplier integrations, infotainment systems, ECUs, diagnostics, and large amounts of customer and vehicle data.
That means automotive cybersecurity is not only about hacking the car itself. It is also about the company behind the car: the backend systems, mobile applications, APIs, production environments, supplier access, fleet portals, connected services, and the people who operate them.
This training takes a realistic, hands-on approach to automotive hacking. You will work with practical scenarios based on real-world automotive environments: from attacking web portals and APIs to understanding how attackers can move from business systems toward vehicle-related services and data.
The course is built by people with hands-on experience in cybersecurity at large OEMs and automotive environments. It is designed to be realistic without requiring prior automotive hacking experience.
The training can be delivered as a technical hands-on course, but can also be adapted for in-company sessions with management, security teams, engineering teams, risk teams, and product owners.
What You Will Learn
- How cyberattacks against automotive companies work in practice
- Why modern vehicles are connected digital platforms
- How attackers target OEMs, suppliers, apps, APIs, and backend systems
- How vehicle data, customer data, and connected services can be abused
- How attacks against web portals and APIs can impact automotive environments
- How automotive hacking differs from generic IT security
- What realistic attack paths against automotive organizations look like
- What questions to ask engineering teams, IT, suppliers, and management
- How to think about security beyond compliance and paper controls
- How to reduce risk in both the company and the vehicle ecosystem
Hands-on Practice
During the practical part of the training, participants will attack a realistic simulated automotive environment. This may include customer portals, dealer-style systems, vehicle-related APIs, connected-service functionality, and supporting backend components.
Participants will see how small weaknesses can combine into serious attack paths, and how attackers think when targeting automotive companies.
Who Is This For?
Security teams, IT teams, product owners, software engineers, risk managers, compliance teams, managers, and anyone working in or with the automotive sector.
No prior automotive hacking experience is required.
The training is also suitable for management and non-technical audiences when delivered in an adapted in-company format.
Certification
Certificate of Completion: Hands-on Automotive Hacking, issued by Black Swan Training Center.
Requirements
- No automotive hacking experience required
- Laptop with a modern browser
- Technical curiosity
- For hands-on editions: basic IT knowledge is useful, but not mandatory
Course Features
- Duration 2 day
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Certification No
