Process Fellows Webinar "intacs™SPICE assessors today and tomorrow", 2021-11-30, in English

intacs™ SPICE assessors today and tomorrow -
Skills and training requirements for new topics such as cybersecurity
Cybersecurity - a topic that is currently on everyone's lips and affects every company that wants to survive in the automotive industry in the future. In addition to the already high demands on the quality and functional safety of the systems developed for a highly complex vehicle, topics such as access protection, threat defense, security strategies, etc. are now being added. For the developers of such systems themselves, it is already difficult to know and consider all the necessary aspects. But beyond that, there must be other, independent, and objective people who must be able to evaluate the implemented solutions, both technically and in terms of systematical development.
Automotive SPICE® is a process assessment model that is demanded by vehicle manufacturers as the basis for almost all these systems. In Functional Safety according to ISO 26262, it is often equated with the "QM" level. However, the topic has never officially managed to be integrated into Automotive SPICE®.
When it comes to cybersecurity, things are quite different. In its rule R155, the UNECE requires, among other things, that vehicle manufacturers identify and manage cybersecurity risks in the supply chain. In this context, Automotive SPICE® is named as an appropriate method to identify process-related product risks by adding cybersecurity-specific processes. But here, too, the question arises as to who should and can check these processes for adequacy, especially in the context of type approval, where a positive assessment result will become crucial. Until now, there have been no specific requirements for this.
Our webinar aims to shed light on this problem on the assessor side and to present both the currently defined procedure and the future intacs™ training scheme.