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Israel creates first aviation cyber innovation security centre
AIRPORTS and aircraft will soon be safer thanks to a joint collaboration between Tel Aviv University and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), reports Israel's Jewish Business News.
The first-of-its-kind collaboration establishes a joint centre for innovation in aviation based at the university's Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Centre (ICRC).
IATA and Tel Aviv University will promote research and development in areas including big-data analysis, cyber-security, authentication for security purposes, and safety and security checks relevant to the field of international flight.
"The agreement has two aspects: developing a new set of tools for civil transportation for IATA; and training IATA personnel in cyberspace security,?says Isaac Ben-Israel, an Israeli air force general who heads the ICRC and the university's Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security.
He also chairs the National Council for Research and Development and the Israel Space Agency.
"We have started on the training aspect,?said Gen Ben-Israel. "The toolkit will be a matter of research. We have initiated the research and still have a long way to go.
"Because our centre is interdisciplinary, we can cover all those different aspects,?he said. "Our centre includes not only computer science, mathematics and engineering, but also takes into account legal and business aspects, psychology, societal attitudes and issues of privacy.
Five cyber research centres have opened in Israeli universities in the last two years, but ICRC is the only one that is interdisciplinary.
"We have about 250 researchers, 50 of them university professors and the others PhD students and postdocs," said Gen Ben-Israel, former head of military R&D of the Israel Defence Forces and the Ministry of Defence.
The first-of-its-kind collaboration establishes a joint centre for innovation in aviation based at the university's Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Centre (ICRC).
IATA and Tel Aviv University will promote research and development in areas including big-data analysis, cyber-security, authentication for security purposes, and safety and security checks relevant to the field of international flight.
"The agreement has two aspects: developing a new set of tools for civil transportation for IATA; and training IATA personnel in cyberspace security,?says Isaac Ben-Israel, an Israeli air force general who heads the ICRC and the university's Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security.
He also chairs the National Council for Research and Development and the Israel Space Agency.
"We have started on the training aspect,?said Gen Ben-Israel. "The toolkit will be a matter of research. We have initiated the research and still have a long way to go.
"Because our centre is interdisciplinary, we can cover all those different aspects,?he said. "Our centre includes not only computer science, mathematics and engineering, but also takes into account legal and business aspects, psychology, societal attitudes and issues of privacy.
Five cyber research centres have opened in Israeli universities in the last two years, but ICRC is the only one that is interdisciplinary.
"We have about 250 researchers, 50 of them university professors and the others PhD students and postdocs," said Gen Ben-Israel, former head of military R&D of the Israel Defence Forces and the Ministry of Defence.
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