By Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader Satellite communications enable a diversity of onboard capabilities for aviation. SATCOM extends the range of ACARS, the most popular protocol for both [...]
Nation states both big and small are increasingly turning to cyber attacks as a strategy for both offensive and defensive warfighting. As a consequence, it is only a matter of time before [...]
Just a few days ago Airbus detected cyber-attacks on its commercial aircraft information systems. Although this attack targeted their company’s information systems and was not a threat to [...]
By: Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), a new collection of standards and technologies for aircraft position reporting, has seen widespread [...]
By Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader Modern aviation platforms have a staggering array of individual systems that perform every function from flight control and safety to communication, [...]
By Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader As threats against embedded aviation and defense systems become more complex and commonplace, developers and system integrators will need to develop defenses [...]
More than two decades of offensive and defensive cyberwarfare have seen threats evolve from arbitrary, mass-scale attacks like Melissa or Code Red to precision-targeted attacks that involve [...]
Providing a faster path to complete data loads A data loader is a tool that allows a user to upload new software applications and data on embedded software components of an aircraft. It is [...]
By Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader The Cyber Kill Chain, defined by Lockheed Martin and others, is the sequence of steps a skilled attacker takes to compromise a system, beginning with external [...]
By Darren Cummings, DoD/Cyber Leader In the last several decades, the avionics industry, like the electronics industry, has undergone a transformation from vertically integrated platforms to a [...]
Cyber attacks continue to become more sophisticated. Software teams need to be more vigilant in identifying security vulnerabilities early in the development process when problems can be [...]
By Mike Johnson, Business Leader Teams across the industry are turning to DevOps as a better way to organize their software efforts for productivity, quality, and ease-of-deployment. Because [...]
