Information Security in Civil Aviation

Risk assessment techniques for civil aviation security

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Protecting Civil Aviation from Cyberattacks

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for civil aviation, although the significance of reports in May that a computer security researcher hacked into aircraft control systems while flying as a passenger aboard commercial jets is still unclear. The probe into the alleged hacking incidents unfolded just weeks after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Transportation Security Administrat...

Software Security in Aviation

A Morphological Approach for Proactive Risk Management in Civil Aviation Security

In this study, morphological analysis is used to develop a framework for proactively assessing the risk of a terrorist attack on the air transportation system. Morphological analysis, a first order method pioneered by Fritz Zwicky, is employed to exhaustively create possible attack scenarios. Morphological analysis is then used to assess the likelihood of each scenario. Given a consequence esti...

Toxicological Findings from 1587 Civil Aviation

CHATURVEDI AK, CRAFT KJ, CANFIELD DV, WHINNERY JE. Toxicological findings from 1587 civil aviation accident pilot fatalities, 1999–2003. Aviat Space Environ Med 2005; 76:1145–50. Introduction: The prevalence of drug and ethanol use in aviation is monitored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Under such monitoring, toxicological studies for the 1989–1993 and 1994–1998 periods indicated...