Cybersecurity will be key for the new and future vehicles that depend on the exchange of data with the infrastructure. These vehicles will bring countless new features and are potentially capable of autonomous driving.
This paper analyses the automotive threats, standards and regulations. An explanation about the automotive future vision and cybersecurity dependency is given. The main presentation is a high-level model of a five-grade rating system responsible for evaluating the cybersecurity quality of the future vehicles, in order to establish a trustable and reliable environment. Based on the standards used for secure software development and security assessment we defined a procedure for the evaluation of security of the technological components of a car.