AUTOMOTIVE VSOC · POST-QUANTUM DEFENCE

A security operations centre built for vehicles, hardened for the quantum era.

Most SOCs were designed to watch laptops and data centres. Vehicles are a different problem: thousands of ECUs, millions of endpoints, OTA campaigns, V2X exposure, and a regulator who expects a 24-hour breach disclosure. Our Automotive VSOC is engineered for that surface, with every telemetry hop secured by NIST post-quantum cryptography.

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RESPONSE

< 15m

P95 on critical incidents, around the clock

SURFACE

107

Vehicle endpoints monitored per VSOC region

CRYPTO

100%

Telemetry under PQC-hybrid mTLS

EVIDENCE

R155

Audit-grade artefacts, ISO/SAE 21434 aligned

WHY A GENERIC SOC FAILS HERE

Vehicles do not look like anything else you defend.

01

SAFETY-CRITICAL

A false positive can kill someone.

Quarantining a server costs revenue. Quarantining a brake controller costs lives. VSOC actuation logic must be probabilistically calibrated and engineered to ISO 26262 safety adjacency, not just SOC 2 compliance.

02

PROTOCOL ZOO

CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet, V2X, OTA.

A single connected vehicle speaks half a dozen protocols at half a dozen privilege levels. Detection logic that only understands TCP and HTTP misses the most important signals.

03

REGULATORY CLOCK

UNECE R155 demands disclosure.

From detection to a regulator-grade incident report in hours, not weeks. Without a workflow built for type-approval evidence, every incident becomes a panic, and every panic becomes a finding.

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Four stages. Quantum envelope.

Telemetry flows from vehicle edge, through a PQC-protected ingestion gateway, into detection and analysis, out into response actuators. Every hop is signed with ML-DSA and key-exchanged with ML-KEM in hybrid with X25519, so a future quantum break does not retroactively unwind your evidence chain.

Automotive VSOC architecture with PQC-secured telemetry pipeline POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENVELOPE · ML-KEM 1024 · ML-DSA 87 · HYBRID X25519 VEHICLE EDGE Connected Vehicle → CAN / Ethernet bus → V2X radio (DSRC/C-V2X) → HSM / Secure Element Fleet Telematics → ECU logs, DTC events → OTA update telemetry → Driver behaviour data Roadside Units → RSU certificate events → Traffic anomalies → CRL distribution EDGE INGESTION Quantum-safe gateway mTLS · ML-KEM hybrid → Signature verification → Schema enforcement → Rate limiting / dedup → Anomaly pre-filter DETECTION & ANALYSIS SIEM / Behavioural Real-time correlation across fleet, ECU, OTA, V2X streams ML threat models CAN intrusion, anomalous OTA, harvest-now signatures Threat intel feeds Auto-ISAC, OEM PSIRT, CISA, regional CERTs Compliance evidence ISO/SAE 21434, R155, audit-grade artefacts RESPONSE Quarantine Revoke pseudonym certs OTA rollback Signed reversion to N-1 PSIRT escalation On-call < 15 min Regulator notify UNECE R155 §7.3.7 24/7 · GLOBAL · SOC2 TYPE II · ISO 27001 DIGITAL NORTH AUTOMOTIVE VSOC

DETECTION COVERAGE

What we actually watch for.

Threat models built from real incident data, Auto-ISAC bulletins, OEM PSIRT disclosures, and academic adversarial work. Not pattern-matching on generic SIEM rules.

CAN bus intrusion

Frame-level anomaly detection. Identifier spoofing, replay, injection from compromised ECUs.

OTA tampering

Signature verification, version reversion attempts, manifest manipulation, mid-flight aborts.

V2X cert abuse

Pseudonym pool exhaustion, Sybil patterns, RSU impersonation, CRL evasion.

Telematics anomalies

Geofence breach, off-pattern DTC events, fleet-wide synchronised behaviour.

Harvest signatures

Bulk-capture indicators on V2X channels. Identifying who is recording, where, and at what cadence.

Supply chain drift

Sudden ECU firmware fingerprint changes, indicating upstream compromise or rogue Tier-2 components.

WHY VSOC AND PQC ARE THE SAME PROJECT

A SOC that uses broken cryptography is recording its own failure.

Every signed telemetry record, every issued investigation key, every encrypted disclosure to a regulator, sits on top of cryptography that will not survive a quantum computer. A breach captured in 2027 and decrypted in 2034 still discloses everything it would have disclosed if you had handed it over in plaintext.

VSOC and PQC are not two purchases. They are one project. A vehicle security programme that runs detection on classical-only cryptography is preserving evidence for an adversary who will be able to read it later.

We design VSOC and the cryptographic substrate together: PQ-hybrid mTLS at the ingestion gateway, ML-DSA signatures on every record at write-time, ML-KEM key exchange for incident-grade communications, all of it built around cryptographic agility so the algorithm registry can swap forward as standards evolve.

CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENVELOPE

Telemetry transport TLS 1.3 + ML-KEM-1024 (hybrid)
Record signing ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204)
Long-term archive SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)
OEM IdP federation PQC-OIDC bridge
Regulator disclosure PQ-signed SOAP / REST
Agility Versioned algorithm registry

START WITH A 30-MINUTE CALL

Tell us your threat model.

Bring your PSIRT, your security architect, and your in-vehicle platform lead. We bring our VSOC architect and our PQC engineer. One call. We decide whether there is a fit, and you walk away with a clearer map of your defensive posture either way.

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