ObjectSecurity will present “Unseen and Unsafe: Why ECU Cybersecurity Needs Binary-Level Truth” at GVSETS – Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium on 8/12/2025 in Novi, MI.

As military ground vehicles become increasingly software-defined, the complexity—and vulnerability—of their embedded systems has grown exponentially. In his keynote at GVSETS 2025, ObjectSecurity’s CEO Dr. Ulrich Lang will address the urgent need to rethink how we evaluate and assure the cybersecurity of vehicle electronics.

Despite the growing threat surface across ECUs, sensors, and controllers, the defense industry still relies heavily on traditional cybersecurity methods like SBOMs, static source code analysis, and lagging public vulnerability databases (e.g., NVD). These approaches fail to capture what matters most: the actual firmware running on real devices.

Lang’s keynote, titled “Unseen and Unsafe: Why ECU Cybersecurity Needs Binary-Level Truth,” will outline a more rigorous, ground-truth-based path forward—one that uses binary analysis and advanced symbolic execution to uncover deeply embedded vulnerabilities in ECUs and other embedded systems. He’ll discuss how tools like BinLens, ObjectSecurity’s binary vulnerability analysis product, and M2SIM, our Army DEVCOM funded SBIR, are already helping uncover vulnerabilities invisible to traditional tools.

Importantly, the keynote will also tackle a systemic issue that has long plagued vehicle cybersecurity: the lack of market incentives for manufacturers to prioritize secure design. Since integrators and acquisition teams have no transparent way to measure or compare the cyber resilience of ECUs, suppliers rarely invest in robust protections. Lang will introduce the OTAI-NCT initiative – funded through a NIST SBIR –  which aims to fix this by standardizing and publishing objective cybersecurity metrics—empowering both Army program offices and OEMs to make smarter, more secure choices.

This keynote is a must-attend for anyone involved in vehicle acquisition, cybersecurity, embedded systems design, or resilience engineering. You’ll walk away with a clearer picture of where the risks really are—and how we can shift toward a more secure, accountable, and transparent future for military vehicle electronics.