Automated VuLnerability Assessment and Risk Mitigation for Future Aviation Systems Safety, ALARM

The integration and digital connection of National Airspace System (NAS) with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) provides more pathways for hackers to attack the aircraft. To address this critical need, University Technical Services, Inc. (UTS) proposes to develop an automated vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation (ALARM) system, to provide real-time cybersecurity vulnerability monitoring, assessment, and mitigation for the future aviation systems safety. The key innovation of this work is the development of real-time aviation systems monitoring, machine learning (ML)-based cyber threat detection, proactive vulnerability scan and assessment, dependency-based system-level vulnerability assessment and risk analysis, and aviation cyber threat intelligence for comprehensive security analysis and threat mitigation. The proposed technology, if successful, will achieve a breakthrough in the computational efficiency for aviation systems cybersecurity assessment and risk analysis.