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Level 4 · Validation

Automotive Fuzz Testing Expert

Design and operate fuzzing campaigns that fit a real validation programme.

Duration
6 weeks
Delivery format
Hybrid
Certification
AutoSec Validation Expert
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Overview

What This Program Is For

Fuzzing finds the defects that review and manual testing do not. This program builds the capability as a programme rather than a one-off campaign: designed scope, instrumented targets, triage that scales and integration into the validation pipeline you already run.

Build repeatable fuzzing capability for automotive protocol stacks — campaign design, target instrumentation, crash triage and integration into validation pipelines.

Who should attend

  • Validation and test engineers extending into security testing
  • Security engineers building a repeatable testing capability
  • Embedded engineers responsible for protocol stack quality
  • Tooling and CI engineers integrating security gates

Prerequisites

  • Embedded or validation engineering experience

Curriculum

3 Modules Across 6 weeks

Every module is assessed. Durations are indicative for open cohorts and are compressed or extended for corporate delivery.

  1. Fuzzing fundamentals and campaign design

    2 weeks

  2. Instrumentation and harnessing

    2 weeks

  3. Triage, reporting and pipeline integration

    2 weeks

Learning outcomes

What You Take Back to Your Programme

Capability you can demonstrate, not topics you have been exposed to.

What you will be able to do

  • Design protocol fuzzing campaigns with coverage feedback
  • Instrument targets for reliable crash detection
  • Triage and de-duplicate findings at scale
  • Integrate fuzzing into CI and validation gates

  • Career outcomes

    • Security Validation Engineer
    • Test Automation Lead
    • Security Researcher

  • Capability levels

    • Security Validation Specialist

  • Tools and skills

    • Protocol fuzzing framework
    • Target instrumentation harness
    • Crash triage tooling
    • Coverage measurement
    • CI integration templates

Labs included

Hands-On Time on Real Hardware

Lab access is included with this program, and the exercises below are assessed rather than optional.

  • Included lab
    2 assessed exercises

    AutoSec Fuzz Testing Lab

    Break protocols before attackers do

    Objectives

    • Design a protocol fuzzing campaign
    • Instrument targets for crash detection
    • Triage and de-duplicate findings

    Practical exercises

    • UDS service fuzzing
      intermediate
      3 hours

      Fuzz diagnostic services and triage the resulting faults.

    • Automotive Ethernet stack fuzzing
      advanced
      4 hours

      Campaign against SOME/IP and DoIP handling with coverage feedback.

Certification mapping

Where This Sits in the Framework

How the program maps to the AutoSec Automotive Cybersecurity Capability Framework™ and the certification ladder.

Capability Framework

Security Validation Specialist

Master TARA, security validation, fuzz testing and architecture review.

  • Security validation methodologies
  • Automotive TARA execution
  • Architecture security review
  • Fuzz testing fundamentals

Certification

AutoSec Validation Expert

Recognises independent offensive and validation capability: penetration testing against real ECU hardware, fuzzing campaigns and defensible findings.

Level 4 · Expert

Exam preparation

Format
hybrid
Duration
6 hours
Passing score
80%
Valid for
3 years
  • Hold the Professional certification
  • Complete Automotive Penetration Testing Expert or Automotive Fuzz Testing Expert
  • Deliver a full engagement report assessed by a practitioner panel
See the full certification ladder

Common questions

Automotive Fuzz Testing Expert FAQ

What candidates and their managers ask before enrolling.

Do I need prior fuzzing experience?
No. The program starts from campaign design principles. What it does assume is embedded or validation engineering background — you should be comfortable instrumenting a target and reading a crash dump.
Which protocols does the program cover?
UDS and DoIP in depth, SOME/IP and CAN more briefly, with the campaign design principles taught so they transfer to protocols the program does not cover directly.
How does this fit an existing validation process?
That integration is the point of the final module. You leave with a gating model for CI, a triage workflow that survives hundreds of findings, and an evidence format that satisfies type-approval expectations.

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Enrol as an individual, or talk to us about running this program for your engineering team.

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