Panel discussion: Cleared for takeoff – elevating cybersecurity through collaboration
17 Mar 2026
Aviation security and facilitation
Collaboration has always driven human progress, even before aviation existed. Today, as the aviation ecosystem grows more interconnected and cyber threats more sophisticated, the sharing of cyber threat intelligence at a global level within the aviation ISAC community significantly boosts industry-wide resilience. Recent attacks on aviation, such as the Scattered Spider campaign or the attack on Collins affecting European airports, highlight the need to manage risks in a real-time threat environment, with a constantly shifting risk landscape. Overcoming cultural and procedural barriers is necessary to enable protection of critical infrastructures and coordinated defense, prioritizing collective resilience over individual risk or isolated protection. In cybersecurity, as in aviation, progress depends on trust and timeliness.
- We need to manage risks in a real-time threat environment as risk profiles evolve in real time. Traditional periodic risk reviews are not enough
- Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) empowers proactive management of your constantly shifting risk landscape and helps to go further than mere compliance
- Cultural barriers must be overcome when sharing CTI: timeliness is critical and trust is foundational
- Cyber threat intelligence is most powerful if sourced from a trusted, real-time intelligence community operating at a global level to have local impact
- Aviation, as a hyperconnected ecosystem, needs CTI sharing to strengthen collective cyber resilience over individual risk or isolated protection
