Using artificial intelligence to mitigate cyber-risks

Artificial intelligence, alongside proper training and education, can manage even the worst of security breaches into a positive outcome for airports and their users, says Kristina Dores, Chief, Aerodromes & Ground Aids at Namibia Civil Aviation Authority, and Brad Hayes, CTO at Circadence Corporation. However, the key question is when (not if) will organisations take the steps to prepare for the coming wave of digitisation? Highly-interconnected and increasingly-digitised systems are a necessary part of modern airport infrastructure. Furthermore, vulnerabilities at these interfaces – through personnel and digital systems alike – lead to an increased threat of intrusion and potentially catastrophic disruption. This problem is not one that we can simply train and hire our way out of as these systems and their attack surfaces do not scale linearly in complexity.