This book surveys the history, purpose, and standards for the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus and it describes security vulnerabilities and countermeasures that can be employed to mitigate future cyber attacks. Readers will benefit from the author’s summary of the different standards, which discusses their interconnections and their differences, in a security context.

Mitchell A. (Mitch) Thornton is currently the Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security, a research unit at SMU. His prior industrial experience includes employment at Amoco Research Center, E-Systems, Inc (now L3Harris Communications, Inc.), and the Cyrix Corporation where he held a variety of engineering positions. His research areas include cyber security, applications of data science, signal processing and sensor-based systems in security, autonomous systems, and quantum informatics. He is an author or co-author of over 300 technical articles and five books and a named inventor on more than 20 patents and patents pending. He has performed sponsored research for several different government agencies and industrial organizations. He is a licensed professional engineer and he holds a general radiotelephone operator license with radar endorsement from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He received the PhD in computer engineering from SMU, MS in computer science from SMU, MS in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and BS in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University.