At GuardKnox, we have developed a range of products that simplify the development, deployment and maintenance of vehicle software. We enable efficient and secure vehicle communication both internally between the vehicle’s various systems and externally to the cloud and world at large.
We provide universal and customized solutions for both hardware and software needs enabling vehicles to meet the capabilities needed in today’s driver-centric market. GuardKnox leads the automotive market’s paradigm shift to software defined, connected and autonomous vehicles that are ‘secure by design’.
At the heart of GuardKnox’s product family is the Service-Oriented Architecture framework. It provides a unique, patented software environment that decouples applications from the underlying hardware. GuardKnox’s SOA framework provides a middleware solution for service consumers to communicate with service providers while hiding the locations and other details of the software components implementing the services. This leads to services being independently developed, tested and deployed while simplifying and accelerating the development and deployment of features, software updates or upgrades.
The SOA framework supports, through separate partitions, multiple parallel operating systems, like Linux, Android, and AUTOSAR, by using a hypervisor to share a common hardware platform.
The focus is on processing power which allows to build mixed-criticality environments. This means that every application can get the performance and security characteristics it requires.
While more vehicles are implementing automotive Ethernet technology for communication links and peripheral device deployment, the standard for the foreseeable future remains relying on existing ECUs with legacy networking technologies like CAN, LIN, FlexRay, and MOST.
In order to allow for seamless communication among all ECUs in a vehicle, a routing device has to be deployed that supports all relevant legacy and automotive Ethernet interfaces.
The high-performance communication engine is based on a cost-effective single-chip solution performing all routing actions in hardware, with minimum latencies to meet the real-time requirements of automotive applications.
Communication security inside the vehicle and towards the environment is paramount to driving safety. The communication security core is a set of software components and ECU hardware designs that support communication security from the outset rather than as an afterthought. The communication security core represents cybersecurity as an architecture integration in both hardware and software.
The implementations based on the communication security core can be certified according to ISO 26262 up to ASIL D and the new ISO 21434.
The aftermarket add-on is a connectivity domain controller that serves as a gateway to external communication by wireless and wired interfaces. External connectivity allows for OTA updates, smartphone applications, in-vehicle entertainment, smart city services, OEM app store, etc.
The GuardKnox Platform offers a secured infrastructure of hardware, firmware, and software enabling the vehicle to take full advantage of a “software defined” vehicle. Our platform serves as the foundation for secure hosting of additional capabilities and services, which can be updated OTA in real-time. It also serves as an in-vehicle endpoint and as the hosting platform for a variety of applications.
