From: Air Traffic Management
Aimee Turner
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will release its decision paper “A Framework for Aviation Cybersecurity” tomorrow as part of the AIAA 2013 aviation conference.
AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. With more than 35,000 individual members worldwide, and100 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense.
“A Framework for Aviation Cybersecurity” outlines the existing and evolving cyber threat to the world’s $2.2 trillion commercial aviation enterprise, and notes the lack of international agreement on cybersecurity as it relates to aviation.
It stresses the need for the world’s aviation community to establish a cohesive cybersecurity regime, in particular by: establishing a single framework for cybersecurity throughout the ecosystem; fostering a cybersecurity culture; reaching a unified understanding of the threats and the risks they pose; establishing a protocol for communicating the threats and building enhanced situational awareness throughout the aviation enterprise; strengthening defensive systems and defining design and operational principles for them; providing cohesive situational response; identifying and developing ongoing research and development priorities; and building a culture of unified collaboration and cooperation between governments and private entities.
“The global aviation system is a very complex and integrated system. As dependence on this system increases, it also becomes a target for those seeking to disrupt the industry and the global economy,” said AIAA president-elect Jim Albaugh. “It is my hope that the world’s aviation community implements the framework proposed in this paper, to better safeguard and ensure the future of aviation. Only a vigilant, unified, and coordinated approach will allow us to craft the best possible defenses against the sophisticated and ever-evolving range of threats we face.”
A preview of AIAA’s decision paper “A Framework for Aviation Cybersecurity” is available at www.aiaa.org/AviationCybersecurity. Copies of the complete report may be downloaded from the AIAA website beginning on August 13 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
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