Cybersecurity

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Understanding the risks of autonomous aviation systems When attempting to understand the risks of autonomous aviation systems, including self-flying airplanes, it is worthwhile to consider the [...]

What are the possibilities and practical applications of autonomous systems in aviation? Two recent crashes of self-driving automobiles, one in Tempe, Arizona and another in Mountain View, [...]

The spectacular drone-based light shows featured in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyongChang, highlight the rapid advancement taking place in unmanned [...]

By Tim Bigelow, Chief Development Officer Smart, internet-enabled devices are becoming more and more ubiquitous in our everyday lives. You are no longer required to log into a computer to submit [...]

UAVs and Cybersecurity By Darren Cummings The emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or “drones,” as they are sometimes called, represents one of the most significant changes in [...]

ADS-B and Cybersecurity: Lessons from the Maritime Domain By Darren Cummings, Performance Software DoD / Cybersecurity Leader The migration to Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, mandated [...]

Data Breaches in Aviation Cyberattacks are ubiquitous across many industries. Now that the aviation industry has embraced the benefits generated by a digitally connected world, it is now [...]