Understanding the Human Element

摘要

In addition to the technical challenges for cyber-security aviation faces human challenges involving insider threats leading to betrayals of trust. Common examples include the unauthorized modification of hardware, software, and information and the unauthorized transmittal of information. The human intentions behind betrayals range from the most admirable to the most despicable. Scientific research on deterring, minimizing, and managing these human challenges goes back more than 100 years and has covered betrayals of trust, such as the varieties of sabotage and espionage. Although developed before and during the advent of a cyber-world with commercial aviation, the findings still apply to the selection, training, and management of people to whom trust may be, is, and has been given. The findings also apply to contemporary best practice in understanding how someone given trust can violate that trust.