Cybersecurity

As we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it’s vital to address the critical role that cybersecurity plays in the aerospace and aviation sector. With increasing reliance on digital [...]

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, [...]