Aviation technology supply chain risk
This blog is also appeared in Australian Air Power Today, Winter 25, Volume 7 No. 2. During the past three years, over the course of my Master’s of Cyber Security, I have been investigating aviation cybersecurity: looking at vulnerabilities of System Wide Information Management, as planned in the ICAO GANP; investigating the SITA breach of […]
SITA cyber-attack part II: report
Task It can be useful to look at cyber-attacks in the news to prepare ourselves for similar events. While the available information may be lacking, by analysing current events we can build scenarios to gain insights into adversary tactics, techniques and procedures as well as defences which we can adopt to mitigate similar attacks. This […]
SITA cyber-attack part I: presentation
Task Research recent cloud security incidents with prominent media coverage, and identify one to study for this exercise. For the incident you select, you will then create a five-minute presentation with a voice-over discussing the following: Presentation For this assessment I continued my focus on aviation cybersecurity and chose the cyber attack on SITA which […]
Aviation cybersecurity oversight presentation
Task In this assessment you will consider the policy implications of your new Cyber Strategy, highlighting and explaining two policy statements which support the strategy. These implications will be communicated through a presentation (5-minute recorded video presentation), and an executive brief document (1-page written summary). The presentation and brief will be aimed at the executives […]
Aviation cybersecurity oversight strategy
Task As we have previously discovered, cybersecurity in the aviation sector is an emerging field. In light of other countries introducing specific aviation cybersecurity regulation and the failed Transport Security Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2022, Australia seems to be lagging in this area. Although the Department of Home Affairs is responsible for cybersecurity, when it […]
Evolving aviation cybersecurity
Introduction: The aviation sector Aviation is an important sector, employing 58 million people, contributing $2.4 trillion to global GDP and annually carrying 3.3 billion passengers and $6.6 trillion worth of freight (ICAO, 2016, p. 6). It is also a fast growing sector, growing at 4.3% per annum with commercial aircraft operations expected to double to […]