NMFTA Cybersecurity
Call for Collaboration
Join the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)® in pioneering trucking cybersecurity research. We are currently soliciting responses on several possible topics, such as white labeling in telematics & shared code across firmwares.
Join Our Collaborative Research Initiative in Trucking Cybersecurity
We’re excited to invite collaborators to contribute to some cutting-edge research topics in trucking cybersecurity. If you think someone else might be interested, feel free to share this opportunity with them—just be sure to check in with us first!
How You Can Get Involved
For each research topic, we’ve outlined a preliminary approach, but we’re eager to hear your ideas on how you’d approach the work. Collaboration can take various forms, so please let us know if you’re offering technical expertise, funding, or your time, and whether you require compensation. As you consider responding, it might be helpful to think about the following:
- Approach: How should we move forward with this work?
- Timeline: How long do you anticipate this will take, considering potential collaboration from others?
- Cost: What do you estimate the cost of your participation to be?
Our aim is to publish the results with shared credit for all contributors. We understand that responsible disclosures may need to happen before publication. If you have any alternative suggestions for the final outcome, we’d love to hear them in your response.
Please note that we are not accepting roles focused solely on information sharing in these collaborations, except for our members. If you’re a member interested in being consulted or kept informed throughout the project, feel free to let us know.
Research Topics
Explore the topics below and use the submit buttons to share your proposals.White Labeling in Telematics & Shared Code Across Firmwares
We would like to assess the degree to which telematics devices share libraries or other parts of their codebases by identifying instances of shared executable code among a collection of telematics firmwares.
We have a dozen or so devices and will perform some (or all) of the firmware extractions over the Fall 2024-Spring 2025. We are seeking proposals for work on the analysis of the firmware binaries for shared code identification. Other targets of opportunity are welcomed particularly if they could be identified across the set of telematics devices. The firmwares will be of difference instruction set architectures and operating systems so the work should propose a method that will address this challenge.
Firmware Extraction Process
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