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Hello and welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Molly Boygone, tech and innovation reporter for Automotive News.

In for Pete Bigelow this week.

Upstream security is an automotive cybersecurity and data management platform

for connected vehicles. The company is opening a and Data Management Platform for Connected Vehicles.

The company is opening a new vehicle security operations center

in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

I recently caught up with Shera Sirid Houser, Upstream's Vice President of Marketing.

We talked about surprising auto cybersecurity threats, including risks for the grid related to electric vehicles.

So Shera, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks, Molly, my pleasure.

So I'm really excited to talk to you about some of the broad cybersecurity threats that are facing

automakers and drivers right now. I think there's a lot of things that people really

wouldn't consider. Can you just talk about some of the broad categories of threats that that people might be thinking about

related to electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles what are what are some of the sort of

categories of threats that people should be considering?

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