Combating cyber threats to avitaion - Europe - Curt Lewis

Europe Sets Up Digital 'SWAT' Team for Aviation Cyber Threats

Europe's top air-safety official said he is hiring a group of high-level computer experts to identify and combat looming cyber threats to aviation. 

 Intended to be a kind of digital SWAT team for hacking attacks, the initiative launched last month goes beyond U.S. efforts and is the most dramatic example of the European Aviation Safety Agency's increasingly aggressive approach to such risks. 

 The aim is to quickly provide technical assistance to carriers or national regulators anywhere in Europe in the event of a cyber attack, Patrick Ky, the agency's executive director, said in an interview.