Air Traffic Control: Cybercrime
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that (a) civilian and (b) military air traffic control is resilient to cyberattack.
Answered by Mike Kane
The Department for Transport is responsible for regulating cyber security in the transport sector. For aviation, we work in partnership with the Civil Aviation Authority to introduce relevant standards, guidance, and policy to ensure the cyber resilience of our essential services, including our national air traffic system.
Using both policy and regulatory levers, we support effective management of the cyber risk and assist providers of our national air traffic system to secure their networks and systems. This support includes working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) both with, and on behalf of, our aviation sector to continuously assess and mitigate emerging cyber threats.
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