The rapidly proliferating wireless connectivity & automation of road vehicles offers many benefits to society, and significant commercial opportunity, but also brings a potential explosion of Cyber Security threats. 5*StarS partners HORIBA MIRA, Ricardo, Roke, Thatcham Research with Axillium support will deliver an innovative assurance methodology to assure that CAV components, systems & vehicles have been designed & tested to the relevant cyber security standards throughout their whole development lifecycle, and a Euro NCAP 5 star type consumer rating framework for assessing the Cyber Security of new vehicles, clarifying risk for the insurance industry

Axillium Consulting Limited, trading as Axillium Research, will work with independent IT consultants CCL to run a cyber security audit on its processes, methods and procedures around its operational management of collaborative research projects. This will ensure that Axillium can implement best practice and provide existing and new clients with the assurance that Axillium gives data security maximum importance and that both the physical and operational security measures it implements are robust.