Security Assurance for IT Infrastructure Supporting Airplane Production, Maintenance, and Operation

The present paper seeks to motivate interest in a Boeing-led workshop session on the security evaluation of IT infra-structure supporting aircraft, with focus on issues that arise when flight-critical software and related data are distrib-uted among suppliers, manufacturers, airlines, and mainte-nance organizations via open information networks. We would like to share our pioneering experiences in develop-ing security requirements for an airplane asset distribution system, and to receive feedback from other parties involved with aircraft IT infrastructure. We propose to collabora-tively develop guidelines for system certification require-ments and to identify directions for future research