Abstract:

Airports are one of the most developed structures in point of electromagnetic and digital information aspect. Extremely high amount of information about aviation operation has to be connected with all related units in order to keep operation effectively on-time. Thus, communication web must be both reasonable punctual and well-protected. Since airports are equipped by millions system, it is quite essential to pick the right component to examine in order to find out the main points of system and to restore for the best security service level. At the end of this implementation, the potential failure types of critical points of airport have been examined and identified. So that in case of any cyber action, users will have been informed by the knowledge of proactive support system. Moreover, user will also be educated about how to react to prevent or minimize the possible damage coming from a cyber-attack. In the first stage of this paper, the theoretical research of cyberspace and possible threats have been examined. In the second part, cyber security terms and units related to government policy have been stated. In the final part of the study, the categorization of possible cyber-attacks against airport systems have been discussed and evaluated by confidentiality, integrity, accessibility scale. To analyze failure type and level of its effect FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis) method has been applied in this study. This method is one of the strongest numerical technique which prevent failures before they even exist and identify how to convert high risk components into reliable factors. With analyzing the obtained results, a system which is aimed to be used in Atatürk Airport for scaling and taking considerable proactive actions have been identified and on the purpose of improvement of system some recommendations have been made.

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