As announced in a previous post, EVITA organized its final workshop on Wednesday, November 23 2011 at the Honda Academy in Erlensee, Germany. PRESERVE participated with a presentation on the uptake of EVITA results. Thanks to the meeting, EVITA and PRESERVE defined in detail the list of components that would be implemented in PRESERVE. A demonstration in ITS World Congress 2012 in Vienna, Austria, will be proposed.  

EVITA will organize its final workshop on Wednesday, November 23 2011 at the Honda Academy in Erlensee, Germany. PRESERVE will participate with a presentation on the uptake of EVITA results.

On Friday, October 21, Frank Kargl from the PRESERVE project participated in a panel discussion on Security and Privacy at the 7th International Workshop on Vehicle Communications organized by the COMeSafety 2 Project following the ITS World Congress 2011 in Orlando, Florida. A major focus of the discussion was on the need for harmonization and the readiness for standardization.

Scientific American features an article about vehicle security that also mentions EVITA and PRESERVE:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wireless-car-hacking

The newly-started European research project PRESERVE (Preparing Secure Vehicle-to-X Communication Systems) addresses the challenges of secure and privacy-friendly communication between vehicles. At the project’s kickoff meeting at the University of Twente, participants from academia and industry discussed how this goal could be achieved.