01 / AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY
Automotive cybersecurity
ECUs, in-vehicle networks, diagnostics, software update paths and the connected services behind them — engineered and assessed across the full vehicle lifecycle.
ISO/SAE 21434UN R155UN R156
Training institute · consultancy · project support
Cybersecurity engineered for connected products.
From the ECU in a vehicle to the cloud service behind it and the model making decisions on its data — DriveCrypt Technologies builds the security capability, and the evidence your auditors ask for.
Six security domains. One engineering partner.AutomotiveEmbeddedProductCloudMedical DeviceAI
Where we work
One security partner. Six connected domains.
A connected product rarely stops at one boundary. We cover the whole path instead of handing you between vendors — the same instructors and consultants across all six.
02 / EMBEDDED CYBERSECURITY
Embedded cybersecurity
Firmware and silicon-level protection: secure boot chains, key storage and provisioning, hardened debug ports and update interfaces on constrained hardware.
IEC 62443-4-1IEC 62443-4-2Secure boot
03 / PRODUCT SECURITY
Product security
Security built into how you develop, not bolted on before release: threat modelling, requirements, verification evidence, vulnerability handling and incident response.
IEC 62443ISO/IEC 27001Secure SDLC
04 / CLOUD SECURITY
Cloud security
The backends your devices depend on: identity and access, key and certificate management, secure APIs, tenant isolation and monitoring of device-to-cloud traffic.
ISO/IEC 27001Cloud controlsPKI
05 / MEDICAL DEVICE SECURITY
Medical device security
Connected clinical equipment where safety and security meet: risk management, patient data protection, and the security evidence regulators expect in a submission.
IEC 81001-5-1ISO/IEC 27001Premarket guidance
06 / AI SECURITY
AI security
Securing models and the pipelines around them — training-data and supply-chain integrity, prompt and inference abuse, model access control, plus the governance an AI management system needs.
ISO/IEC 42001NIST AI RMFEU AI Act
What we actually deliver
Security work products, not generic advice.
Engage us for a defined outcome and you get concrete artefacts your engineering, management and assurance teams can use.
Risk → Requirements
TARA, threat modelling, attack paths, cybersecurity goals, claims and traceable security requirements.
Requirements → Architecture
Security concepts, control selection, interfaces, trust boundaries, key management and implementation guidance.
Architecture → Verification
Test strategy, abuse cases, security test cases, penetration-testing support, findings and retest evidence.
Process → Evidence
CSMS, ISMS, SUMS, lifecycle workflows, templates, review gates and audit-ready evidence packs.
Product → Lifecycle
Vulnerability handling, incident readiness, supplier coordination and security activities that continue after release.
People → Capability
Role-based training for engineers, architects, managers, assessors and teams that need hands-on competence.
End-to-end coverage
One attack path, one security partner.
Attackers move across boundaries; most security vendors don't. We assess the connected product end to end — from sensors and ECUs through in-vehicle networks and secure gateways to cloud backend, operations and AI services.
IEC 62443-4-2IEC 81001-5-1ISO/SAE 21434UN R155 / R156ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 42001
How we work with you
Two arms, one standard of delivery.
Build the capability inside your team, or bring us in to do the work with you. Most clients start with one and add the other.
For individuals and teams
Training institute
Live, instructor-led cohorts with hands-on lab work in a virtual environment. Small batches, real exercises, assessment at the end.
- Format
- Live online sessions scheduled around working hours
- Learning
- Hands-on labs, tracks across all six domains
- Who it suits
- Freshers, working engineers and corporate teams
- Outcome
- Certificate of completion and career guidance
For products and organisations
Consultancy & project support
Engineering-led consulting from people who have shipped secured products. We work inside your process and leave you with evidence an auditor will accept.
- Risk
- Threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA and equivalents)
- Systems
- CSMS / ISMS / SUMS implementation support
- Engineering
- Project-based security engineering and testing support
- Assurance
- Audit readiness and supplier interface support
DriveCrypt Consultancy
Project support that sits inside your programme.
When the deadline is real and the team is stretched, training alone is not the answer. We take defined security work off your plate and hand back artefacts your programme can ship with.
01
TARA and threat modelling
End-to-end risk assessment on your item or product, with the analysis, rationale and traceable requirements your assessor will read.
02
Requirements and architecture
Cybersecurity goals turned into concrete, testable requirements and an architecture your suppliers can actually implement.
03
Security testing and pentest support
Test planning, interface and fuzz testing support, penetration testing on your bench, and defect triage with your engineers.
04
CSMS, ISMS and SUMS build-out
Process, templates, work products and internal audit support so the management system holds up under a real assessment.
05
Supplier and interface management
Cybersecurity interface agreements, supplier requirement cascades, and review of what your Tier-1 or Tier-2 sends back.
06
Embedded security engineer
One of our engineers works inside your team for an agreed number of days per week, in your tooling and your review cycle.
In-house automotive penetration testing lab
Test closer to the vehicle. Find issues before they reach the road.
DriveCrypt Technologies has an in-house automotive penetration testing lab for controlled security assessment, hands-on training and practical research. It gives our engineers and learners a place to reproduce realistic attack surfaces, validate controls and turn findings into actionable remediation work.
ECU & bench security assessment
CAN / CAN FD & diagnostics testing
Automotive Ethernet & gateway assessment
Fuzzing, protocol & interface testing
Typical handover
Leave with something your team can use tomorrow.
01 · AnalysisThreat models, TARA outputs, risk rationale and traceability.
02 · EngineeringSecurity requirements, architecture inputs and control definitions.
03 · VerificationSecurity test plans, findings, remediation tracking and retest evidence.
04 · AssuranceReview packs, process evidence and auditor-ready documentation.
Frameworks we work against
Standards, translated into engineering work.
A standard is only useful once it becomes artefacts your team produces and your auditor can inspect.
ISO/SAE 21434
Automotive · with UN R155 and R156
Item definition and TARA, cybersecurity goals and requirements, verification evidence, and CSMS support for type approval.
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security management
Scoping, risk assessment and treatment, Annex A control implementation, the documentation set, internal audit and certification readiness.
IEC 62443
Industrial, embedded and product security
Secure development lifecycle under 62443-4-1, security level targets and component requirements under 62443-4-2.
ISO/IEC 42001
AI management systems
AI system inventory, AI risk and impact assessment, control implementation, and readiness for customer and regulatory scrutiny.
PCI DSS
Payment card data security
Security controls, risk reduction and evidence practices for environments that store, process or transmit payment card data.
HIPAA
Healthcare information security
Security and privacy safeguards for protected health information, supporting risk assessment, controls and compliance readiness.
GDPR
EU data protection & privacy
Privacy-by-design support covering data protection principles, processing activities, security measures, rights handling, breach readiness and evidence for GDPR compliance programs.
EU Cyber Resilience Act
Product cybersecurity & EU market compliance
Cybersecurity readiness for products with digital elements, including security-by-design, vulnerability handling, risk management, technical documentation and lifecycle compliance evidence.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Cybersecurity risk management
Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover practices translated into practical governance, technical controls and measurable security outcomes.
Also applied where relevant: IEC 81001-5-1 and medical premarket guidance, ISO 26262 interfaces for safety-related items, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, GDPR and EU Cyber Resilience Act obligations. DriveCrypt Technologies is not a certification body — we prepare your product, process and evidence so an accredited body can certify you.
Working with us
From first call to signed-off outcome.
01
Free discovery call
Thirty minutes on your product, team level and target standard. No cost, no obligation.
02
Scoped proposal
Written scope, deliverables, schedule and fixed fee before anything starts.
03
Delivery
Live sessions or consulting sprints run to the agreed schedule, with checkpoints.
04
Handover
Certificates for learners, or a documented evidence set your auditors can review.
Why teams pick us
Engineering-led, not slideware.
Practitioners teach it
Everything we teach and advise comes from work done on real production programmes.
Hands-on virtual lab
Learners work in a lab environment with open tooling. No expensive licences on your side.
In-house configuration tooling
Our own security configuration workbench lets trainees practise standards-based configuration without a commercial licence.
One evidence set, many standards
Work products are structured once and reused across every framework that applies to you.
Confidentiality by default
NDA-backed engagements, controlled document access, and no recording of client sessions.
Open to every level
Freshers, mid-career switchers and senior architects all have a track — with the same instructors.
About DriveCrypt Technologies
Built by engineers who had to close the gap themselves.
DriveCrypt Technologies began with automotive cybersecurity training and grew into a full institute, consultancy and project-support partner as clients kept asking the same question in every domain: how do we turn a standard into something our engineers can actually build?
Pavan Balla founded DriveCrypt Technologies to make hands-on cybersecurity capability available to engineers who were being handed standards without being shown the engineering behind them. He leads the institute, the consultancy arm and the freelance trainer network, and sets the delivery standard for every cohort and client engagement.
The company works across six security domains and four core management-system standards, serving individual learners and corporate clients from Bengaluru.
Pavan Balla · Founder & Chief Executive Officer
“A standard your engineers cannot build against is just paperwork. Our job is to make it buildable.”
Questions we get asked
Before you book the call.
Do I need a cybersecurity background to join?
No. The Foundation track assumes no prior security knowledge and starts from fundamentals. If you already work in embedded, automotive, IT or cloud engineering, the Professional track suits you better.
Are the sessions recorded?
No. All sessions are live and are not recorded. Course material is shared read-only through a DriveCrypt-controlled drive for the duration of the course.
Can you take on part of our project rather than train us?
Yes — that is what the consultancy arm does. Pick a fixed-scope package, a monthly block of expert hours, an embedded engineer inside your team, or a short audit-readiness sprint.
How does freelance trainer payment work?
Per session, settled monthly. The rate depends on your domain, the depth of the module and the batch type, and is agreed in writing before your first class.
Do you certify our product or our company?
No. Certification is issued by an accredited certification body. What we do is prepare your process, product and evidence so that the audit goes smoothly.
Do you work with clients outside India?
Yes. Training and consulting are delivered live online, and we schedule around your team's time zone.
Get in touch
Book a free consultation.
Tell us what you are building, or where your team needs to get to. We reply within one working day with a straight answer on whether we can help.
General enquiriescontact@drivecrypttechnologies.com
Training, admissions and trainerstraining@drivecrypttechnologies.com
Consulting and proposalsinfo@drivecrypttechnologies.com
Phone+91 93476 77099
LocationBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ready to scope it?
Tell us where your product or team is stuck.
Bring your current standards, architecture, assessment comments or project deadline. We will help you identify the right next step.