Nowadays automotive industry has been working on the connectivity between automobile and smartphones, e.g., Ford’s SmartDeviceLink, MirrorLink, etc. However, as the interoperability between the smartphone and automotive system increase, the security concern of the increased attack surface bothers the automotive industry as well as the security community. In this paper, we thoroughly study the attack vectors against the novel connection framework between automobile and smartphones, and propose a generic security model to implement a dependable connection to eliminate the summarized attack vectors. Finally, we present how our proposed model can be integrated into existing automotive framework, and discuss the security benefits of our model. Copyright