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Deep Blue’s involvement in Serenity

Deep Blue will specifically focus on the evaluation and tentative application of security patterns integration schemes in the dependability domain, with specific reference to safety critical systems. It will help in the analysis and evaluation of systems in the Air Traffic Control Domain (A6-A7).

Exploitation strategy

Systems used in air traffic control have always been characterised by a limited sensitivity to dependability problems and to possible malicious attacks that could impair their integrity. Current systems collect information from radars and serve a local community of air traffic controllers which protects systems from incorrect interactions with the external world. Since the human factor is the key element of the decision-making process, most of the safety problems incur because of human errors, air-ground communication problems, deterioration of technical and human services combined with adverse atmospheric conditions.

Because of the growing capacity demand due to growing air traffic, this situation is very likely to change. As they are becoming more exposed to external world, control systems are bound to be subject of possible non-intentional or malicious air attacks : exchanges between pilots and air traffic controllers tend to become automatic, while new control concepts tend to rely on satellites. The Single Skye initiative recently launched by the European Union and Eurocontrol requires exchanges of a growing number of data together with a better coordination between control centres and a homogenization of the different local practices and interaction procedures.

The high lever of security and dependability needs to be preserved : a successful application of security patterns integration schemes in security and dependability could contribute to it.

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