US: FAA officials discuss standards to neutralise cyberattacks

Even as US and European regulators jointly pursue ways to fend off cyberattacks against aviation, they are increasingly focused on devising standards to ensure that any successful hackers will be detected and neutralised. Those twin goals are being widely discussed at an international safety conference here this week, while new details emerge about proposed safeguards being developed by a FAA-created panel of govt and industry officials. These experts envision that future aircraft systems will be designed with the assumption that some hacking efforts eventually are likely to succeed. But the long-term solution, they said, is to create robust safeguards able to identify, track and isolate hostile intrusions while maintaining the integrity of critical safety functions. <br/>