The surveillance information are key data for all air navigation service providers which are responsible for the safety of the air passengers and the efficiency of Air Traffic Management system. In this paper, we have focused on the analysis of a protocol used to carry the surveillance information from the sensor to the ATC centre as well as amongst variety of ATM applications inside the ATC centre. As the original ASTERIX protocol has been developed without any security mechanism, it constitutes a major vulnerability. This deficiency has been acknowledged by the AMG (ASTERIX management group) which is seeking a remedy. In this article we describe a proposal to implement the security features into the protocol.
The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive status of cyber security challenges in ARTAS surveillance data processing system. The cyber security is a major concern of current Air Traffic Systems. It is mandated by European Union as well as national law. Therefore, EUROCONTROL as the provider the ARTAS application conducted a comprehensive security assessment is to identify security vulnerabilities of the systems. For this purpose, a grey-box penetration testing was conducted by EUROCONTROL’s security experts. The numerous findings are currently mitigated by the fact that ARTAS systems should be isolated and restricted in a secure architecture. The next version of ARTAS application is addressing the most critical issues.
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