EASA to codify and expand aircraft cybersecurity regs

摘要

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) intends to strengthen aircraft cybersecurity regulations by codifying the requirements into aircraft type certification specifications (CS), replacing the current regulatory process known as special conditions (SC). Also, EASA would expand cybersecurity requirements to more aircraft types. Special conditions mean that regulations must be complied with by individual approval of each aircraft before they are granted airworthiness approval. In a recently issued notice of proposed amendment (NPA) the revised rules would not only replace the use of SCs to mitigate the potential effects of cybersecurity threats on avionics and other electronic systems, but also extend coverage from currently large airplanes to small airplanes, and small and large helicopters.