Cybersecurity

Even though it’s always the goal to prevent cyberattacks on aviation systems, the reality is that connected aircraft, while making things more efficient and robust, also opens the window for [...]

Aviation systems used to be custom-designed and relatively insulated. Today, because they are digitally connected and rely on a network, they are more vulnerable to cyberattack. This reality made [...]

In our blog post, The Future of Aerospace in the Cyber Threat World, we discussed the complexity of dealing with several generations of technology and upgrade cycles that occur throughout the [...]

As we survey the future of aerospace in the cyber threat world in 2019 and beyond, the industry is forced to come to terms with a grim reality: cyber threats against military and civilian [...]

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 [...]