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Aviation Cyber Incident Response and Operational Resilience

Language: English, French

Duration:

3 days

About the course

A cyber incident can disrupt airport systems, airline operations, air navigation services, and passenger services. In aviation, the effects may extend beyond IT: teams must understand operational dependencies, assess potential safety impacts, coordinate decisions, and support a safe return to service.

This three-day course helps aviation professionals prepare for and manage cyber incidents that affect operations. Participants will examine how to recognise and assess an incident, coordinate across operational and technical teams, communicate with relevant stakeholders, and plan for recovery. Practical exercises will use aviation scenarios such as a passenger processing outage, disruption to airport systems, or loss of access to essential operational information.

The course focuses on aviation incident coordination and resilience. It is designed to complement an organisation’s technical cybersecurity procedures and response plans.

Key Topics

Aviation cyber risk and operational resilience
Digital dependencies across airports, airlines, and air navigation services
Critical systems, functions, and service dependencies
Cyber incident recognition, classification, and escalation
Assessing operational and potential safety impacts
Crisis roles and coordination between technical and operational teams
Business continuity and contingency arrangements
Communication with staff, passengers, authorities, and service providers
Recovery planning and return to normal operations
Third-party and supply chain dependencies
Cyber incident tabletop exercise
Post-incident review and continuous improvement

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Identify cyber-related threats that could disrupt aviation operations.
Map critical operational functions and their dependence on digital systems.
Assess the potential safety, operational, and service impact of a cyber incident.
Describe incident escalation, decision-making, and coordination responsibilities.
Coordinate response activities across operational, IT, safety, security, and management teams.
Apply business continuity and contingency measures during system disruption.
Support a controlled recovery and return to normal operations.
Identify lessons from exercises and incidents to improve organisational preparedness.

Targe Audience

This course is suitable for professionals working in:

Airport and airline operations
Aviation safety and security
IT and information security
Air navigation services
Emergency planning and business continuity
Compliance, risk management, and senior management

Certificate

Upon completion, participants receive
a certificate of achievement.

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