The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen) program is a long-term modernization and transformation of the current National Airspace System (NAS) into a more effective and coordinated decision-making system. NextGen provides a more reliable, secure, and dependable aviation capability for both users and operators ensuring more capacity, throughput, and safety. System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is a NextGen Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology that communicates aviation data among the various stakeholders incorporating trajectory based operations and optimum profile descent. SWIM data is delivered to the aircrew via Aircraft Access to SWIM (AAtS) framework. This research paper investigates the information security threats and performance caveats in the main operating components of AAtS by identifying the information security breaches associated with the NAS Enterprise Message Service (NEMS), particularly its data exchange path with Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) through the Data Management Service (DMS). This research addresses the risks associated with the information flow passing through the NAS Enterprise Security Gateway (NESG) internal Data Management Zone (DMZ) and external DMZ. This research delineates the overall strategy for identifying the methodology in testing the data flow from the aircraft EFB via the NEMS network to the external service providers as well as identifying test procedures to emulate the threat vectors on this network. After conducting the necessary tests, the key technical research areas are comprehensively evaluated and recommendations to support the security of the AAtS will be documented.


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    Title :

    Information security in the Aircraft Access to System Wide Information Management infrastructure




    Publication date :

    2016-04-01


    Size :

    967432 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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