CyberTruck Challenge

Juan Manuel Garcia Hinojosa - it is always a treat to see your truck roll in with the Bosch USA team! Your support helps make the Challenge the success it is.

Heather Vermillion - thank you for supporting CyberTruck Challenge! You and your team are one of the reasons the event is so successful!

Thanks George Alvarez, Nicolas Guibert de Bruet, Amy M. Kofoed, Kiruthika Krishnamoorthy, Gopalsamy Padmanaban at Navistar Inc! We had a great time too! You are correct, we are already working on 2025 (despite the lack of sleep that occurs during a Challenge)! Thank you for supporting us and we look forward to working with your team again in 2025.

Delighted to work with our sponsors such as Jonathan Wallace Nathan McDonald at Daimler Truck North America who are a part of this great tradition in the industry. Looking forward to 2025!

CyberTruck Challenge class of 2024 with 43 college students representing 26 universities from 2 countries, and student origins from 9 different countries with 90+ professionals who came together throughout the week to not only educate and excite the future cybersecurity workforce but to collaborate and secure our heavy trucking industry. It is not an easy week, it is intense and noted as, "The most fun you will ever have being exhausted" as well as, "The event I look forward to the most every year" by returning professionals.

 Meet one of our fabulous trainers who is always a favorite with hands-on Hardware RE: Bill Hass, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer Bill first got involved in the commercial motor vehicle industry during his graduate studies in 2015 as a research assistant in the cybersecurity group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) where he was lead author of "Truck Hacking: An Experimental Analysis of the SAE J1939 Standard" and spent many hours in semi trucks and buses reversing vehicle systems. While his career has mainly been in the automotive industry, he remains interested in heavy duty vehicles, especially the unique economic, safety, and security impact they have due to their massive size and the breadth of industries that depend on them. This will be his 5th time teaching the multi-hour course on Hardware Reverse Engineering at the CyberTruck Challenge. Originally co-developed for the first CyberTruck Challenge in 2017 with Russ Bielawski, he is refreshing the course again with a guided EEPROM study. Equipped with two low-cost, yet potent open-source tools, Tigard & BitMagic Basic logic analyzer, students will snoop buses, extract firmware, and write hacked firmware against real commercial vehicle ECUs. He supports the challenge because he believes cybersecurity is a community endeavor and investing in and sharing knowledge with students, industry professionals, and hackers is how we all move forward together. Today, Bill is a principal cybersecurity engineer at Lear Corporation where he creates security architectures for connectivity ECUs and leads the technical implementation of ISO 21434. He has 12 years of technical experience in software development and cybersecurity for automotive embedded systems and holds an M.S.E in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Everyone at CyberTruck Challenge is excited when we have the honor of announcing a new sponsor. Welcome to the 2024 CyberTruck Challenge! Samsara is proud to sponsor the Cybertruck Challenge for the first time this year. As a leading provider in vehicle telematics, safety, and visibility, we are heavily committed to ensuring security within our product ecosystem. 🚚🔒 In addition to the security-focused nature of the event, we are thrilled to support an initiative that aligns closely with our core values and operating principles, such as 'win as a team' and 'work backwards from winning'. 💪🤝 As the digital transformation of connected operations progresses, the associated attack surface will inevitably expand. The CyberTruck Challenge plays a vital role in addressing this by raising awareness about the security of heavy vehicles and telematics among students and academia. This initiative is crucial for ensuring robust security within connected operations and heavy vehicle ecosystems. 🛡️🎓 Samsara’s representation includes 💬 Jonathan Stines Offensive Security Engineer, Shane Young Offensive Security Engineer, Ariel Valencia Security Analyst, and David Hartgrove Security Operations Engineer. We are honored to be a part of this year's event and are excited about the mentorship opportunities it presents. Working alongside students as they navigate through the workshops and exercises not only contributes to their growth but also energizes us. Engaging with CyberTruck Challenge and the next generation of security researchers and engineers is a privilege that we eagerly embrace. 🌟🚀🦉 #samsara

NetSPI is proud to support the 2024 CyberTruck Challenge. NetSPI is the proactive security solution used to discover, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities of the highest importance, so you can protect what matters most to you. This year NetSPI is not only sponsoring, but has two instructors, Samantha Isabelle Beaumont and Larry Trowell who will be holding a training class, External Network Hacking. Sam is the Director of Transportation, Mobility, and Cyber-Physical Systems and is at the forefront of developing and delivering technical strategies and solutions for Hardware and Integrated Systems. With a career spanning 10+ years in tech and cybersecurity, Sam has established a formidable reputation for hacking hardware and embedded systems, to all things that “fly, sail, or drive”. Her extensive expertise provides NetSPI customers with unmatched technical leadership, depth, and delivery excellence in advisory and cybersecurity services, ensuring assets existing in physical spaces are fortified against evolving threats. Larry the Director of is Hardware and Embedded Systems, his responsibilities include leading and executing Embedded Penetration Testing and researching new security techniques to ensure the safety of embedded systems. Hacking “anything with a chip”, he has aided in the design and security of multiple devices in the Automotive, Financial, Medical, Wireless, and Multimedia spectrums. Larry has been published in medical journals and spoken at conferences all over the globe and has extensive knowledge of the design of various bare metal and low-level embedded devices. #TeamNetSPI supports the CyberTruck Challenge because it’s an opportunity to bring awareness and grow the next generation of cybersecurity professionals in the commercial vehicle industry. We look forwards to giving back to the people by sharing our expertise of practical knowledge to students and industry alike in Michigan on June 24-28.

Always glad to see our Geotab sponsors!

Thank you to the Cummins Inc. team for not only sponsoring, but providing training, mentorship, and a vehicle for students to learn on! Cummins Inc. is returning this year as a long time Platinum sponsor of the CyberTruck Challenge and has been sponsoring since the inaugural event in 2017. The CyberTruck Challenge is a unique event bringing together cybersecurity professionals from the commercial vehicle industry, leading academics, cybersecurity researchers, and government agencies.   The event includes two days of training for students interested in the industry, including background on technologies used in trucks, and two days of hands-on security research on trucks. Cummins plans to bring a truck equipped with a Cummins ISX15 engine with full access for student research. Cummins is proud of the commercial vehicle cybersecurity community created from the CyberTruck Challenge, having many collaborations spin-off from relationships started at the event.