Cybersecurity is a unique community where certifications weigh equal college degrees, hands-on experience rules the roost, and there's multiple entryways to the Ring. But...which direction should you choose? We'll settle this once-and-for-all with a good old Tag Team matchup!
Tonight, for our main card event: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Entries into Cybersecurity!

Safety has been at the forefront of civil aviation since the formalization of safe software development standards. These standards had be developed by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) and were first released in 1981. For the next two decades, the aviation industry continued to develop safety standards for both hardware and systems design . Soon, aviation found that aircraft were becoming flying data centers with increasing levels of connectivity to match. (Reword)

Aviation has extensive data, processing capability, and global connectivity, but how does security fit into aviation?

In this talk, participants will learn about how Safety and Security is applied to aviation system design and how they interact in non-obvious ways with one another. We'll define the real, legal, definition of Safety, and you'll learn about the importance of acronyms like Design Assurance Levels (DAL) and Security Assurance Levels (SAL). Most importantly, we'll walk through a simple system analysis to demonstrate how security threats can impact system safety. In the end, you'll have a new perspective on how objective-based systems design can help security teams draw links between threats and their respective impacts regarding operations.