The Air Traffic Resilience project (ARIEL) addresses the holistic risk assessment of critical infrastructure components of aviation, for which new potential threats to public security can arise in the event of a cyberattack. With the aid of the air traffic simulator TrafficSim, risk analyses for different attack scenarios are carried out at the Institute of Flight Guidance.
Project description
As an essential component of the transport sector, air transport is part of the so-called critical infrastructure of Germany and therefore potentially endangered by a wide range of security incidents. The stronger networking of individual systems and infrastructures brings, in addition to the desired efficiency improvements and cost savings, also new risks. These must be identified and evaluated by means of risk analyses.
The project, which has been running since January 2015, pursues a scenario-oriented approach. The project partners are IABG (project management), Airbus, DFS, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Fraunhofer, DLR and the Bundeswehr University. Since November 2016, a prioritised selection of the crisis scenarios developed within the project has been compiled and implemented in simulations. This work is carried out within a new work package in collaboration with the project partners. Differing attack scenarios are implemented and simulated in the specifically developed air traffic simulator TrafficSim. The objective is to demonstrate, by the end of 2017, the potential of simulation methods for the analysis of direct effects on a single flight as well as the holistic disturbance of air traffic.
Objectives
ARIEL addresses the holistic risk assessment of critical infrastructure components of aviation in the field of information technology. New potential threats to public security through cyberattacks can already be foreseen today. The scenario-based and practise-oriented approach of the overall system enables the development of prevention strategies and recommendations for action for future system developments.
IABG (Coordinator) Airbus Bauhaus Luftfahrt DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung DLR Fraunhofer Universität der Bundeswehr