A system and method for providing security to a network may include monitoring, by a processor, traffic on a first and second network portions of an in-vehicle communication network; determining whether or not a first message detected on the first network portion is anomalous based on at least one of: an attribute of a second message detected on the second network portion and an absence of a second message from the second network portion over a predefined time period; and, if it is determined the first message is anomalous then performing at least one action.