Modeling and Conducting Security Risk Assessment of Smart Airport Infrastructures with SecRAM
Hajer Saada, Riccardo Orizio, Stefano Sebastio · 2024
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic caused flights and routes cut back inverting an otherwise astonishing growth trend, air passenger traffic is increasing every year. As a result, airports are going through a continuous digital transformation enhancing their infrastructure to keep up their growth and to offer passengers an improved and seamless experience. On the other hand, a far-reaching digital infrastructure poses new cyber-security challenges. In response to such a novel and connected ecosystem adopted by airports, this paper presents a security risk assessment to identify and mitigate the consequences of attacks threatening the digital passenger process of smart airports. Also, we propose an extension of SecRAM, a risk assessment methodology proposed by the SESAR Joint Undertaking for the Air Traffic Management (ATM), to enable a continuous assessment as the threat landscape evolves.