TDPX: Theft Detection and Preventing Agent

Active In-Vehicle Defense Against Keyless Car Theft

PlaxidityX TDPX is the in-vehicle agent powering our industry-leading vDome system. Designed to seamlessly integrate into your vehicle’s architecture or an aftermarket device. TDPX operates at the edge to neutralize advanced vehicle theft attempts before the engine ever starts by instantly detecting, preventing and reporting the attempt.

Use Case

Stop Vehicle Theft Before It Happens

Modern connected vehicles face a rising epidemic of keyless theft. Attackers are using highly sophisticated relay attacks, CAN injectors, and dark-web emulator tools to seamlessly bypass standard defenses and steal vehicles in under 30 seconds. Traditional stolen vehicle recovery (SVR) systems only track the vehicle after it is gone. OEMs need an active, embedded shield that prevents theft at the source.

TDPX Highlights

Hardening for ECUs / Autosar - IDPS

Monetizable Security

TDPX provides the technological foundation for OEMs to offer advanced anti-theft protection as a premium, subscription-based service, transforming security from a cost center into top-line revenue

Zero False Positives

Rigorous profiling ensures precise detection of specific attacker tools, guaranteeing that legitimate owners are never accidentally locked out of their vehicles.

Offline Protection

TDPX operates entirely locally and does not rely on mandatory cloud connectivity. It instantly blocks attacks even if the vehicle is parked in an underground garage with zero cellular reception

Automotive DevSecOps

Automotive DevSecOps

Hardware Flexibility (No Vendor Lock-In)

Designed for an open ecosystem, TDPX can be easily deployed as an embedded software library natively within ECUs or via certified aftermarket telematics units

Automotive DevSecOps

TDPX Features

Pre-Emptive Wake-Up

The TDPX agent remains vigilant while the vehicle is powered down. It wakes up milliseconds before an attack executes to intercept malicious messages on the CAN or accessory bus.

Blackbox Forensic Buffering

The agent continuously records the vehicle’s network traffic. If an incident occurs, it retrieves the last 10 seconds of activity, allowing our Threat Intelligence team to analyze the exact attack path and quickly generate new defensive signatures.

Dynamic Over-The-Air Immunity

TDPX seamlessly receives new threat signatures and configuration updates directly from the Vehicle Protection Cloud Core (VPCC), ensuring your fleet remains protected against the latest attack tools found on the dark web.

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“We see cybersecurity as a differentiator of our market offering and believe our partnership with PlaxidityX complements our “Digital Shield” cybersecurity service offering, helping us to achieve our goal of becoming a leader in secure software and electronics.”

Oliver Huppenbauer

“The partnership with PlaxidityX enables our OEM and Tier 1 customers to benefit from our new, high-performance Ajunic®️ platform without the security worries. By leveraging PlaxidityX’s automotive cyber security expertise and innovative IDPS product line, we will be able to deliver market-leading in-vehicle protection capabilities as an integral part of our software development stack.”

Georg Schwab

“We chose PlaxidityX based on its proven experience, knowledge, methodology, and expertise..PlaxidityX’s ability to complete and submit in an extremely short time with top quality results, was critical for meeting our business goals”

PlaxidityX (Formerly Argus) Automotive Cyber Security
Emrah Duman

“PlaxidityXs’ comprehensive suite of cyber security solutions and its outstanding array of strategic technological partnerships have contributed to the company’s leadership position”

PlaxidityX (Formerly Argus) Automotive Cyber Security
Dorothy Amy

“The partnership with PlaxidityX enables our customers to perform cybersecurity testing on our established test platforms ..We are excited to partner with a strong and experienced cybersecurity service provider such as PlaxidityX”

Dr. Herbert Schütte

“By combining PlaxidityX’s expertise in securing connected vehicles with Microsoft’s Azure AI capabilities, we have a unique opportunity to accelerate ‘shift left’ security innovations across the entire automotive sector..”

PlaxidityX (Formerly Argus) Automotive Cyber Security
Dominik Wee

“PlaxidityX is a key pillar of Continental’s SDV strategy, enabling Continental to implement a security-by-design approach. As automotive cyber security moves to the cloud, PlaxidityX’ cutting-edge technologies and proven VSOC capabilities position us advantageously to meet our customers’ future needs”

Gilles Mabire
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