While connected and software-defined systems create new opportunities, they also introduce new cybersecurity risks. Increasing software complexity, the need for continuous updates, AI-driven development, and growing regulatory requirements mean that traditional security testing is no longer sufficient. Many organizations still rely on isolated penetration tests and late-stage validation. As a result, vulnerabilities are discovered too late, remediation becomes costly, and security risks remain hidden.
dSPACE and dissecto can help you transition from reactive security to continuous cybersecurity validation.
Your Benefits
By combining dSPACE’s expertise in simulation, validation, and HIL and SIL testing with dissecto’s automated security testing platform HydraVision, we enable continuous verification, validation, and offensive security testing throughout the entire product lifecycle.
- Detect vulnerabilities earlier and reduce development risks
- Continuously validate security requirements and cybersecurity goals
- Automate penetration testing and security regression testing
- Scale cybersecurity testing across projects and product variants
- Accelerate compliance with standards and regulations
- Improve cyber resilience throughout the system lifecycle
An Integrated Cybersecurity Validation Approach
Our joint solution combines three complementary disciplines:
- Requirements-Based Verification
Verify that security mechanisms are implemented correctly and comply with cybersecurity requirements.
- System-Level Validation
Validate cybersecurity goals in realistic software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments.
- Continuous Offensive Security Testing
Identify vulnerabilities through automated penetration testing, fuzzing, and attack simulation with HydraVision.
From Fragmented Findings to Continuous Confidence
Continuous cybersecurity validation helps organizations not only meet regulatory requirements but also gain confidence in the real-world security of their products. Rather than conducting isolated assessments, security becomes an integrated and scalable part of development, testing, and operation.
Accelerate Cybersecurity Validation with Agentic AI
HydraVision helps organizations transform security requirements, threat models, and security objectives into executable test cases faster and more efficiently. By combining AI-assisted test generation with proven automation, simulation and HIL and SIL environments, teams can automate security validation, reuse test assets across platforms, and execute tests in a controlled, repeatable manner. The result is a scalable approach that delivers the speed of AI-driven engineering while ensuring the traceability, reliability, and governance required for modern cybersecurity validation.
Applicable Across Industries
The cybersecurity challenges are similar across industries, including automotive, commercial vehicles, aerospace, defense, energy, industrial automation, agriculture, and medical technology: Connected systems must remain secure, resilient, and compliant throughout their lifecycle.
Our solution helps organizations validate cybersecurity requirements, test real-world attack scenarios, and prepare for regulations and standards such as ISO/SAE 21434, UNECE R155, IEC 62443, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and industry-specific certification frameworks.
Build Cybersecurity into Every Stage of Development
With dSPACE and dissecto, you can integrate cybersecurity validation into existing development and testing workflows, from requirements and simulation to system validation, penetration testing, and continuous operation. The result is faster validation, reduced risk, and greater confidence in the security of your products.
FAQ
How does HydraVision support cybersecurity testing?
HydraVision provides an automated and scalable framework for cybersecurity validation. It enables penetration testing, fuzzing, attack simulation, exploratory testing, and security regression testing, helping organizations identify vulnerabilities early and continuously throughout development and operation.
Which environments are supported?
Cybersecurity validation with HydraVision can be performed across stand-alone test benches, software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and system-level test environments. This allows organizations to validate security mechanisms and test attack scenarios under realistic and repeatable conditions throughout development and integration.
How can AI accelerate cybersecurity testing?
HydraVision enables agentic AI workflows to accelerate the creation of security test cases and test automation. AI-assisted workflows can transform security requirements, threat scenarios, or testing objectives into reusable test assets, helping teams increase test coverage while reducing manual effort and maintaining full traceability.
What is continuous cybersecurity validation?
Continuous cybersecurity validation is the ongoing security assessment and validation of systems throughout the entire product lifecycle. It combines requirements-based testing, system-level goal validation, and offensive security testing to continuously evaluate a system's cybersecurity posture as software, configurations, and threats evolve.
What are the benefits of continuous security validation?
It helps dDetect vulnerabilities earlier in the development process, reduce cybersecurity risk and remediation costs, improve compliance readiness and auditability, increase testing coverage through automation, strengthen system resilience against evolving threats.
Which industries can benefit from this solution?
Automotive, commercial vehicles, aerospace, defense, energy, industrial automation, agriculture, and medical devices can all benefit from the solution.
