Security and Risk Reduction (S2R)

The past few years have seen a dramatic growth of the Extended Enterprise concept in the European automotive industry and in the number of private B2B portals and public Marketplaces set up to support Extended Enterprise organisations.

The extension of the boundaries of the enterprise, the increased sharing of data and the opening up of networks and applications to trading partners via B2B portals increases the possibility of security failures and exposes the partners to additional risks.

Many companies have put measures in place to reduce the possibility of security failures and to limit the risks to which they are exposed but these measures have been introduced in an uncoordinated way and the diverse requirements are imposing a significant administrative burden on partners who need to connect to multiple portals and marketplaces, whilst not necessarily guaranteeing maximum security and minimum risk.

Up to now, because no standard recommendation existed for B2B security within the automotive industry, much effort, time and money has been expended on individual bi-lateral discussions in order to establish security requirements for B2B exchanges between trading partners. Implementation of the results of these discussions is time-consuming and customers are investing in many different solutions in the attempt to satisfy their security requirements.

On the supplier side, the diverse security constraints of different customers adds significant complexity to the operation and results in additional work for the supplier and/or security requirements not being properly satisfied.

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