Fleet maintenance systems: How vulnerable to cyber-attacks are they?

A recent report from Colorado State showed that drivers’ ELDs were a point of cyber security vulnerability but the threat of a cyber breach isn’t so much about the ELD itself; it’s about a cyber pirate gaining access to a fleet’s telematics system.

Just because a truck untethered rolling down the highway doesn’t mean it’s protected in any way from a cyber breach and threats loom when that truck comes in for service, of all placed.

There are dozens – maybe more – of diagnostics platforms and if one of those machines ever gets hacked, it basically becomes the on-ramp into the truck for bad-actors, according to National Motor Freight Traffic Association Senior Cybersecurity Research Engineer Ben Gardiner, who joins the 10-44 this week.

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Contents of this video
00:00 10-44 intro
00:29 Electronic logging devices (ELDs) and telematics systems
01:14 Diagnostic software
02:36 RP1226 connector vs OBD
04:36 Diagnostic port functions
07:37 Connectors and telematic devices
10:12 Service and maintenance computers and laptops
10:59 Hackers and trucks
13:16 Data backups and restores