Aviation cybersecurity challenges grow with emerging technologies and expanding digital attack surface
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This report examines the growing cybersecurity challenges facing the aviation sector as its digital attack surface expands. With emerging technologies like machine learning, 5G telecommunications, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, autonomous aircraft, and increased use of space-based systems, aviation-cybersecurity risk management is becoming significantly more complex. The article, authored by Pete Cooper and Simon Handler, analyzes how adversaries are targeting aviation systems and the difficulties in managing and gaining insight into these evolving risks.
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With emerging technologies like machine learning and fifth-generation (5G) telecommunications seeing wider adoption—alongside electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), autonomous aircraft, and increased use of space—aviation-cybersecurity risk management is on the cusp of becoming more complex.
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