Cybersecurity Threats Analysis for Airports

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In today’s society, cybersecurity raises uncomfortable questions and gives no alternative to cyberattacks. Thus, for a better understanding of the problem, people should know that such attacks are deliberate malicious acts undertaken via cyberspace to compromise the system directly and extract valuable information. In terms of airport informational security, there is a lot to take into consideration, from digitalized processes (e.g., flight display, check-in process) to all human activities (e.g., ensuring guidance to the gates, welcoming people on board). Due to the latest trend of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the introduction of the new generation e-Enabled aircraft, such as Boeing 787 (including all the technologies it supports and wireless connectivity), contributed to the growth of cybersecurity breaches. In order to reduce these events, people should understand the danger they can easily generate by using mobile terminals during a flight. For the prevention of malicious attacks, authorized personnel have to conduct an in-depth analysis of all the security interconnections which were established between different networks. The main idea of this paper is to describe several use-cases where cybersecurity related to airports is brought to the public attention.

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Suciu, G., Scheianu, A., Petre, I. Chiva, L., and Bosco, C. S. 2019. Cybersecurity threats analysis for airports. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 931: 252-262. 10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_25

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