The unmitigated insider threat to aviation (Part 2): an analysis of countermeasures

Why and how unpredictability is implemented in aviation security – A first qualitative study

“…However, findings suggest that unpredictability also contributes to increasing and maintaining security awareness among airport employees and potentially creates a positive impact on the security culture: A security culture in which everyone is attentive and vigilant concerning possible threats is more sensitive toward blind spots. Hence, the concept of unpredictability could be considered in relation to programs for preventing insider threats [ 31 ].…”

“…The deployment of unpredictability has to be cautiously planned and evaluated. Moreover, an unpredictable security system could also be beneficial for the mitigation of different threats—it is capable of not only addressing attacks “from outside,” as quoted above, but also threats that come from within the airport security system [ 31 ].…”

“…To the aviation industry, insider threats are seen as a growing problem that need the establishment of countermeasures [ 31 , 35 , 38 ]. In the context of a highly regulated security system acting mainly in a reactive way upon past incidents, insider threats seem crucial—precisely because the insider knows about potential security gaps due to the proximity in daily operations and could use this information either in a malicious or non-malicious way.…”