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Airports, airlines, aircraft, borders, communications and messaging depend on one another. Security has to work across the whole chain.
Aviation is a connected system. Airports, airlines, aircraft, border systems, communications and messaging all depend on one another, and they are run by different organizations in different countries.
That is what makes cybersecurity in aviation its own discipline.
In aviation, no organization secures itself alone.
Many operators, one system
A flight involves an airline, at least two airports, air navigation, ground handling, border control and the networks that carry messages between them. A weakness in one part can become a problem for the others, so security has to be understood across the whole chain as well as inside each organization.
Operations come first
Aviation runs to the minute. Security measures have to work with operations rather than against them, which means understanding how the operation actually runs before changing anything.
Global by nature
An airline or an airport group rarely answers to a single regulator. Compliance has to hold across jurisdictions, and assurance has to give leadership a picture they can rely on wherever the organization operates.
What a fractional CISO does
