Autonomous Vehicle Security: Composing Attack, Defense, and Policy Surfaces
Michael Clifford, Miriam Heller, Karl Levitt, Matt Bishop · 2022
An attack surface enumerates resources accessible to an attacker for cyber attacks on a system. These resources are: methods that can be called as part of an attack; channels that an attacker outside the system can use to get to a system’s interface; and untrusted data that an attacker can use in conjunction with the system’s programs and channels. Historically, a system’s attacks surface has provided a metric on the vulnerability of a system, in part to compare two systems’ exposure to attack.