Means of Compliance and Relation Between Security Standards in Airworthiness Engineering

In the current networked society, there is a critical need to secure all safety-critical physical and cyber systems and their communications. This security assurance process must be done in coordination with the safety assurance process, such that the required safety levels are not affected. Aviation and aerospace domains security standards are the guidelines industry, and research enterprises must follow to ensure security in the skies. This proposed study builds an in-depth framework of the relation of the current airworthiness security standards, as well as suggested guidelines to integrate the framework with airworthiness safety standards for concurrent security and safety engineering. The concurrent security and safety assurance processes are used as inputs to the aircraft design and development process, and as a means for aircraft implementation verification, and validation and certification processes.