A system for real-time monitoring of cybersecurity events on aircraft

The expanding global data communication infrastructures, data networking technologies and wide use of mobile computing devices is having commercial aircraft designs to include external connectivity. The external connectivity facilitates aircraft maintenance activities and allows airlines to provide internet access to passengers, but also makes the aircraft vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks. Cyber security attacks on an aircraft could impact the safety-of-flight systems and/or the systems supporting the business of the airlines. Proposed industry standards require logging security event failures that are to be managed as part of the maintenance activities [1]. This paper describes a simple configurable system to collect, monitor and report security event failures on an aircraft in real time to help detect and/or prevent cyber security attacks.