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Nick Royal

Ricardo Innovations

Mobile Data System Resilience:

New Rules, New Risks, New Solutions
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Ricardo delivers world class strategy, engineering & 

technology to government and industry

Our ambition is to be the world’s pre-eminent organisation focused on the development and

application of solutions to meet the challenges within the markets of Transport & Security,

Energy, and Scarce Natural Resources & Waste.
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Megatrends drive three interlinked challenges that drive safe automation and connectivity

Efficient, Safe & 

Secure Mobility

Low Carbon 

Affordable Energy

Efficient use of 

Scarce Resources

Population 

Growth

Urbanisation

Connectivity

Anticonsumerism?

Increasing

income &

wealth

Environmental

awareness
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Automation is critical to support EU target to reduce road fatalities 50% by 

2020*

Source: Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011-202 COM(2010) 389 final

Improve Drivers Improve Vehicle Systems Improve Vehicle Cooperation/Management

Driver information 

systems Semi-autonomous control Autonomous/Automated Control

• Enhanced driver 

feedback

• In cab and off 

cab

• HMI & V2I 

comms

• Improved vehicle system management 

and integration

• Sensing and control

• Terrain topography

• V2I topography

• Complete vehicle management 

integration

• Sensing and actuator control

• V2I and V2V comms

• Autonomous control and strategy
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But what happens if these systems are exploited?

“Trustworthiness of ADAS systems is 

critical for consumers, and further 

adoption of autonomy will build on 

our trust in them.”
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Partnerships are essential to ensure digital resilience

The 5StarS consortium is aiming 

to develop a consumer rating 

framework like Euro NCAP’s 

vehicle safety ratings, that will 

give UK consumers transparency 

around a car’s potential 

cybersecurity risk
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5 StarS delivers a qualitative assessment of vehicle cyber resilience

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UK Department for Transportation Cyber Security Principles for CAV
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Digital Resilience Partnership

Roke and Ricardo bring together 160 years 

of innovative engineering experience to 

offer a new approach to cyber security 

across transport systems and the critical 

national infrastructure which enables the 

design and development of systems which 

are “secure by design”.
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Our objective is to develop methodologies 

against which the digital resilience of a 

vehicle can be assessed, measured and 

assured against globally recognised metrics, 

enabling trusted ‘secure-by-design’ systems.
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Ricardo UK Ltd - Shoreham Technical Centre

Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex 

BN43 5FG, UK 

Nick Royal

Commercial Manager - Ricardo Innovations

Ricardo UK Ltd

Mob: 44 (0)7525 902999

Nick.Royal@ricardo.com