Abstract
The practice of defending assets from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction is as ancient as man’s existence on earth. Cybersecurity, information security, and computer security arefurther attempts of man to continue the same ancient practice. This is due to the unavoidably prevalent need and use of information and communication technologies in this century, which has left the man with such vulnerability and insecuritythrough its devices and infrastructures. The aviation industry, being one of the most economic and leisure viable industry in theworld has been at the top-notch of the use of these technologies for better services to man. Nigeria Aviation industry is one of thelargest and most viable in Africa is opened to the vulnerabilities and cyber threats that comes with these advanced technologies.However, several methods and programs have been employed by various organizations and stakeholders, but, the Nigerian CivilAviation Authority (NCAA), been the apex governing body that control, monitor and regulate the economic and safety oversight ofthe entire Aviation industry in Nigeria seems not to have gotten it right with the recent trends of cyber warfare in the industry asopposed to their counterparts in the world over. Therefore, this research study attempts to employ data from existing literatureand questionnaires to analyze the existing practices of cyber/information security programs (if any) within the NCAA and todesign an adaptable cybersecurity framework that is robust enough for its safety. By using version 3.9.3 of Waikato Environmentfor Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) software, Naive Bayes, Bayes Net, Decision Table, IBK (Linear NNSearch), REP Tree, J48, SMO, Simple Logistic, and Bagging are the nine algorithms employed to determine and predict tier classes as existing profile and target profile respectively for NCAA within the framework. SMO emerge best fit to predict the target profile while the Bagging algorithm emerges best fit to determine the current profile. Gaps and implementable action plans were deduced. Thereafter, the RNA Cyber Security Framework (RNA-CSF) is conceptually developed, analyzed and proposed for NCAA and for any other organization that has the need to use it.
Highlights
Aviation Industry is said to be supporting 6.8 million jobs and makes a $72.5 billion contribution to Africa Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [1]. This accounts for 11% of the jobs and 3% of the GDP supported by the air transport industry worldwide
The growth and sustenance of such economically viable industry can be challenged through its critical infrastructures that are highly dependent on computer technologies, cyber networks, and information systems
This study provides a cybersecurity framework (CSF) for Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) that is holistic in application by assessing its current cyber security management plan, its functionality, vulnerability, competence, as well as unravel critical niches of improvement
Summary
Aviation Industry is said to be supporting 6.8 million jobs and makes a $72.5 billion contribution to Africa Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [1]. This study provides a cybersecurity framework (CSF) for NCAA that is holistic in application by assessing its current cyber security management plan, its functionality, vulnerability, competence, as well as unravel critical niches of improvement. With the bagging algorithm result, it is deduced that the most classified instance which is data has the highest FP Rate of 0.400 and lowest MCC of -0.316 to be taken as the existing tier of NCAA in the NIST cyber security framework. This connotes that informal practices; limited awareness; and absence cyber security coordination are most likelihood in the organization. This will further be analyzed with the target profile to find the actual gaps
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