Be it a household that has locked up for the night or a connected car sat in a parking lot, as soon as a gap in its security system is found it becomes a race against time to prevent harm from being caused.

Within the cyber security space, this issue is often referred to as the zero-day vulnerability – something that has been discovered by someone, but not necessarily by those who would want to mitigate it. In the case of the connected car, that would be the owner of the vehicle, the automaker or the software provider. The party that made that initial discovery could be a researcher with positive intentions, but it could also be a hacker that intends to keep it secret whilst plotting havoc.

“There are three guarantees in life: death, taxes and vulnerabilities,” said Stacy Janes, Chief Security Architect at Irdeto during a recent Automotive World webinar. “The zero-day vulnerability is …