Cyber threats are everywhere, including outside in logistics yards.
Bob Hall, Chief Operating Officer at autonomous yard operator Outrider, said security and compliance for indoor warehouse automation are well established. For outdoor industrial-grade autonomous systems adjacent to logistics facilities? Not as much.
That’s why Outrider has spent the past year reviewing its cloud software, APIs, infrastructure and data governance policies against a rigorous, prescribed process. The company has now achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification for its technology after an audit conducted by security and compliance assessment provider Prescient Security. The certification was achieved in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants standards for System and Organization Controls for Service Organizations.
“As cyber threats become more frequent and sophisticated, enterprises need assurance that AI-powered logistics systems are built with security at their core,” Hall said. “… By securing SOC 2 Type 2 certification, Outrider has now done the work to provide data security for autonomous yard operations.”
The certification ensures that Outrider’s policies, governance and controls meet the highest standards of information security and compliance.
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To achieve this, the company’s testing included deploying threat detection services, enabling multi-region failover, ensuring scheduled and ad hoc backups, and operating across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Additionally, Outrider employs secure software development lifecycle best practices to safeguard safety-critical autonomous functions, such as obstacle detection and braking. The certification also validates that Outrider has the processes to monitor anomalies, detect threats, and ensure teams respond in a timely fashion and follow security protocols consistently.
“Outrider delivers its solution via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, meaning that it is responsible for safeguarding both cloud access to the vehicle as well as the data it handles,” said Outrider Chief Marketing Officer Londonne Corder. “Like many ‘as-a-service’ vendors, Outrider protects against cybersecurity threats, including malware, phishing, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and password attacks.”
She said the SOC 2 Type 2 certification ensures that Outrider’s solution safeguards supply chain-specific data, including trailer locations, volume and yard behaviors, against cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
While indoor warehouse automation tools, with already well-established security and compliance measures, deal with similar data, it’s not identical.
“Many indoor warehouse automation tools are designed to simply follow pre-defined lines and perform narrowly defined tasks without incorporating dynamic operational data, whereas Outrider's solution dynamically incorporates situational attributes and unplanned asset locations and types to autonomously move trailers around the yard,” Corder said.
Along with its software security comes physical safety.
Outrider’s safety approach is aligned with global third-party testing and certification organization TÜV SÜD’s AV Conformity Framework requirements.
“Secure is safe, and safe is secure, especially in a landscape where new threats appear by the minute,” said John Stein, Head of IT Operations at Outrider. “That’s even more critical in the world of AI, where resilience and trust have to be built in from the start. Security is about the cloud; safety is about the autonomous vehicle. The two together give enterprise CISOs (chief information security officers) the confidence to deploy Outrider autonomous vehicles and scale with us.”
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