Toyota, Hitachi join Japan's automotive cybersecurity push

Over 100 companies eye rules on software inventories to deter attacks

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Cars are lined up at a Toyota Motor assembly plant in the Japanese city of Miyawaka. A vehicle's software can span over 200 million lines of code. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu)

AKINOBU IWASAWA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Dozens of Japanese companies including Toyota Motor and Hitachi are collaborating in an industrywide initiative to improve cybersecurity for automobiles.

The 116 companies, which are members of the Japan Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center, look to formulate industry-wide rules concerning software bills of materials (SBOMs), or inventories listing the components in automotive software.

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