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Today's columnist, Teresa Shea of Raytheon Intelligence & Space, says groups such as Girls Who Code play a major role in attracting more diversity to the cyber workforce.
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Raytheon Intelligence and Space has developed solutions to the diverse and growing cyber threat landscape. The FAA s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), will modernize America s air transportation with interconnected air traffic control, making air travel safer and more efficient than ever. But improved connectivity also increases the danger of cyberattack by giving attackers possible inroads to everything on the network, including aircraft and their subsystems.
There are other new vectors of attack too, from malware embedded in imported electronic components to careless use of USB thumb drives by the plethora of individuals with access to these systems. They can expose operators to threats ranging from criminals trying to lock up systems with ransomware to a full-on assault on our national critical infrastructure by a hostile state.
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
Cybersecurity and air traffic control leaders will discuss how industry can partner with government to help protect the aviation ecosystem from increasing and more sophisticated cyber threats.
Attendees will learn about:
The unique challenges present by the aviation ecosystem and recommendations for enhancing security
How supply chain security affects everything from the actual plane to air traffic control to airport operations
By Natalie Alms
Dec 09, 2020
More than one in three public-sector cyber jobs is unfilled, according to a white paper on federal workforce released by Cyberspace Solarium Commission in September 2020.
Chris Inglis, a commissioner on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and former deputy director of the National Security Agency, says that long-term solutions to the cybersecurity workforce problem requires thinking expansively beyond the demands of cyber jobs. So what we re speaking about is, how do we invest sufficient education for purposes of realizing our expectations and aspirations in cyberspace, not merely the important but narrower discipline of cybersecurity, Inglis said at a Dec. 1 event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.