Abstract
In today’s society, the cyber-security subject raises a lot of uncomfortable questions and gives no alternative to cyber-attacks. Thus, for a better understanding of the problem, people should know that such attacks are deliberate malicious acts undertaken via cyber-space to compromise the system directly and extract valuable information. In terms of airport informational security, there are 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 they support and wireless connectivity) contributed to the growth of the cyber-security breaches. In order to reduce these events, people should understand the danger they can easily generate using, for instance, mobile terminals during a flight. For the prevention of malicious attacks, the 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 the cyber-security field related to airports is brought to the public attention.
Keywords
- Cyber-security
- Cyber-attacks
- Airport
- Threats
- Vulnerabilities
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This paper has been supported in part by UEFISCDI Romania through projects ALADIN, ToR-SIM and ODSI, and funded in part by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 777996 (SealedGRID project) and No. 787002 (SAFECARE project).
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Suciu, G., Scheianu, A., Petre, I., Chiva, L., Bosoc, C.S. (2019). Cybersecurity Threats Analysis for Airports. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_25
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