Method of determination the level of the state critical infrastructure importance in the civil aviation

Abstract

The process of rapid development of information and communication technologies caused considerable and sometimes revolutionary changes in all life spheres of most countries. It significantly increased the vulnerability of different networks, systems and facilities and was much complicated the ensuring of their reliable protection and security. All these factors led the fact that leading countries began to devote great attention to the protection of the most important means for the security of its citizens, society and the state; objects, systems and resources, and processes of critical objects identification, calculation of their criticality level and the assessment of the effects of possible interruptions. In this paper the formalize method of determination the level of the state critical infrastructure importance in the field of civil aviation is proposed that by introducing a basic set of system and sets of subsystems, components, functions, continuity disturbances (interruptions, functional loss), their characteristics and effects, and constructing a three-dimensional matrix of criticality and calculation of the additional weight criticality factors, makes it possible to assess (determine) the importance level and rank critical aviation information systems both by both quantitative and qualitative parameters. In further research study based on this method special software will allow for experimental research and confirm the possibility of determining the importance level of different categories of critical aviation information systems.