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Homeland Security, DoD, Transportation Officials Focus on Aviation Cyber Security

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

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Homeland Security, DoD, Transportation Officials Focus on Aviation Cyber Security

Boeing 787 Dreamliner cockpit view. (Boeing)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Pentagon, and the Department of Transportation have been working since May to implement the cyber security goals of the National Strategy for Aviation Security, released earlier this year, and to coordinate cyber security priorities. "In May, the Aviation Cyber Initiative (ACI) was chartered as a tri-chaired task force by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Defense, and the Department of Transportation," according to a CISA…

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