US: Panel reaches preliminary agreement on airliner cybersecurity standards

A panel of govt and aviation-industry experts has reached a preliminary agreement on proposed cybersecurity standards for airliners, including the concept of cockpit alerts in the event that critical safety systems are hacked. Some of the recommendations incorporate work already under way to create an entirely new category of automated in-flight warnings—intended to directly notify pilots if navigation signals are jammed or corrupted. Such safeguards for ubiquitous Global Positioning System satellite broadcasts aren’t widely available today, and regulators typically don’t mandate them on any aircraft. But the proposals envision that these and other provisions would be incorporated into a broad package of future cyberprotections and enhanced airworthiness requirements applying to both new and existing aircraft. <br/>