Commercial Aviation Cyber Security: Current State and Essential Reading

Commercial Aviation Cyber Security: Current State and Essential Reading highlights some of the major issues the industry must confront if the vision of a new, advanced air traffic management is to come to fruition. This will require standardization work to identify key components with built-in cyber security that will guide prototype testing, functionality, and prioritizing implementation efforts to solve the roadblocks to global interoperability. In the next decade, commercial aviation will see Next Generation ATM (NextGEN), Single European Skies ATM Research (SESAR), and others utilizing Internet-based air-to-ground communication links for advanced �air traffic control� (ATC) communications. The ten technical papers selected for Commercial Aviation Cyber Security: Current State and Essential Reading span the last decade�s work in commercial aviation cyber security, and aircraft cyber-technologies. Cyber security cannot be �bolted on� as an after-thought as commercial aviation begins to move to the automated management of national airspaces.