About
AutoSec Academy is the training and capability arm of AutoSec Innovation — practitioner-led automotive cybersecurity programs, real ECU labs and a six-level capability framework that makes engineering capability measurable.
Why we exist
Regulation turned automotive cybersecurity from a specialism into an organisational obligation. The Academy exists to make meeting it measurable rather than aspirational.
Build measurable automotive cybersecurity capability through practitioner-led training, real ECU labs and industry-recognised certification.
To be the global leader in automotive cybersecurity education, certifications, labs and capability development.
Replace “we ran a training course” with a level an organisation can assess against, report on and re-test. That is what the AutoSec Automotive Cybersecurity Capability Framework™ exists to do.
Material is written and delivered by engineers who run type-approval assessments and vehicle penetration tests. When regulation moves, the people teaching it are already dealing with the consequences.
Every technical program is anchored in a lab built on production-representative ECUs. Security controls that have only ever been described are not skills.
A credential earned in Pune should mean exactly what it means in Stuttgart or Detroit. Assessments, criteria and lab hardware are common across every delivery region.
Our story
Four things worth knowing before you decide whether we are the right partner.
AutoSec Academy is the training and capability arm of AutoSec Innovation. It exists because regulation moved automotive cybersecurity from a specialism a few people held to an obligation entire engineering organisations must evidence — and the training market did not move with it. Most of what was available was either generic IT security with automotive examples bolted on, or a reading of the standard text with no engineering in it.
The Academy is not a separate education business that happens to teach automotive topics. It sits inside a practice that performs the work: threat analysis, secure development, type-approval preparation and offensive testing for manufacturers and suppliers. Curriculum comes out of that work, and the instructors return to it between cohorts.
Every program is written and delivered by engineers who do the work for a living. That constraint costs us delivery capacity and it is deliberate — a full-time trainer cannot tell you which arguments an assessor actually accepts, or which implementation shortcut looks fine until the debug interface is probed on a production part.
Programs are scoped by the obligation an organisation carries, not by a syllabus. An OEM approaching type approval, a Tier-1 serving three customers with divergent interface agreements, and a university building a degree module need different things from the same body of knowledge. The framework is what lets us serve all three without diluting any of them.
Why AutoSec Academy
Each of these costs us something — delivery capacity, capital, or the ability to scale quickly. They are the trade-offs the model is built on.
Instructors who run type-approval assessments and vehicle penetration tests, not full-time trainers reading from a deck.
Five labs built on production-representative ECUs, HSMs and bus hardware — the systems you will actually secure.
A six-level maturity model that turns training spend into a measurable, reportable capability position.
Onsite, remote and hybrid delivery against one common standard, so a credential means the same thing everywhere.
Five assessed levels from Foundation to the Master-level CACE, earned through examined work rather than attendance.
Capability assessments, CSMS readiness and private academies for organisations rolling this out at scale.
Methodology
Four steps that run through every program, from a two-day workshop to the sixteen-week flagship.
Establish the regulatory and architectural context first. Engineers cannot make good security decisions inside constraints they have not been shown — attack surface, bus technologies, safety interaction and the obligations that now attach to all of it.
Implement the controls on real hardware. Secure boot, key hierarchies, SecOC and hardened diagnostics, inside realistic timing budgets — because the gap between understanding a control and shipping it is measured in weeks of debugging.
Prove the controls hold. Threat analysis that a second engineer could reproduce, fuzzing campaigns with instrumented targets and architecture review that produces decisions rather than opinions.
Turn individual skill into organisational capability. Assessed credentials, a measured capability level per team and the governance to keep both current as regulation and architecture move.
Who delivers this
Each part of the Academy is led by someone who does the work commercially, not only in a classroom.
Profiles below describe the practice roles that lead each part of the Academy. Named biographies are published once individuals have reviewed and approved their own.
Automotive Cybersecurity Practice
Leads curriculum direction across the Academy and delivers the flagship CACE capstone. Background in vehicle programme security engineering and type-approval preparation for manufacturers and suppliers.
Regulation & Management Systems
Owns the CSMS and regulatory curriculum, and leads corporate readiness engagements. Works across UNECE R155 and R156 and the Indian AIS series for global platform programmes.
Secure Development & Cryptography
Designs and maintains the AutoSec lab estate, and delivers the secure development and cryptography programs. Focused on secure boot, HSM integration and key management at production scale.
Penetration Testing & Validation
Leads the Red Team and Fuzz Testing labs and the offensive curriculum. Delivers authorised vehicle security assessments and translates findings into engineering remediation.
Global reach
A credential earned in one region means exactly what it means in another. Assessments, criteria and lab hardware are common across every delivery mode.
Open and private cohorts delivered against one common standard, with lab hardware shipped to site or reached remotely.
Capability assessments, CSMS readiness and private academies for OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, semiconductor and software organisations.
Curriculum development, faculty enablement, teaching labs and student certification pathways for academic institutions.
Long-term capability building measured against the six-level framework, re-assessed on completion rather than assumed.
Whether you are an OEM building capability across an engineering organisation, a university designing a degree module, or an engineer choosing a pathway — start with a conversation.