Aviation Cybersecurity: Scoping the Challenge
New aircraft designs use advanced technology, connecting flight-critical avionics and passenger information and entertainment systems, in a way that makes the aircraft an airborne interconnected network. Although the industry is focused on threats to traditional information-technology (IT), attacks on airport systems are further examples of adversarial evolution. Pete Cooper, Simon Handler and Safa Shahwan argue in this article for the
Atlantic Council that the increased sophistication and scale of spoofing of
Global Positioning System (GPS) signals show the rapid evolution of adversary techniques, posing a growing risk that aviation-cybersecurity vulnerabilities may become a vector for terrorist actors. Although aviation operations are inherently resilient, disruptive attacks at scale will prove challenging. Additionally, “second-generation” attacks against data integrity will undermine safe operations.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AVIATION-CYBERSECURITY-12-19-.pdf
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