Airline physical access governance and cyber-physical security convergence

The Alert Enterprise physical identity access governance and cyber-physical security convergence platform enables airlines to eliminate security silos, to deliver the most complete view of threats and vulnerabilities while providing a frictionless, safe and secure physical access experience for your workforce.

End-to-end physical access lifecycle management

Workforce enablement - Day 1 productivity

Rule-based, real-time automation ‘hire-to-retire’ of airline workforce badge & physical access management
– Employees, contractors, corporate, crew, pilots
360-degree enterprise view and transparency of an identity’s footprint
– Access, trainings, validations, background checks
Frictionless safe and secure physical access experience
– Self-service requests, review and approvals for physical access and badge management

Governance, safety & compliance - Safe & Secure Workspaces

Proactive compliance – automated safety, security, training validation and background checks prior to badge and access grants for employees and non-employees
Automated and continuous access/badge monitoring (including return) with are business owners
Periodic reviews for regulatory compliance for critical areas and access creep mitigation
Embedded automated enforcement controls for safety & security protocols for expiring:
- Badge
- Access
- Photo
- Passport
- SIDA
- Training
- Media Rooms
- Background Checks
- Simulators
- GDPR

Sustainable operational excellence - Organic with Elasticity

Fully automated integrations, complete data sync and integrity with internal and external systems
– CASS, CLEAR, KCM, Airports, RapBack etc.
Digital transformation of all internal and external facing security operations with uniformity and standardization
– Authorized Signatories, RapBack Enrollment, Remote sites, Emergency Access, Citations, Vehicle Decals etc
Mobile footprint, photo updates, rebadging, jump seat allocations, physical keys management, passport validity
monitoring and advance notifications

Airline physical identity access governance and cyber-physical security convergence

The cost to operate systems in existing silos is expensive and full of risk. Alert Enterprise
delivers a single unifying platform with a dual-focused objective:

1) Bridge the security gaps

2) Eliminate redundant spending

Workforce access governance

Real-time integration with HR, multiple PACS and IT / Business Systems
Consolidated decentralized badge management across hubs
Business partner onboarding,
physical access governance
Contractor access governance
Self-service access requests
Automated notification and re-issuance of expiring badge
Removal of badge access on termination and risk indicators
Full life-cycle visitor identity management in multi-tenant environment

Workforce intelligence

Identity intelligence to monitor insider threats
Unified identity profile and risk score
AI and Machine Learning behaviour analytics
Active policy enforcement for regulatory compliance

Cyber-physical security convergence

Unified dashboard across security systems (Video, PACS, Perimeter Intrusion Detection PID)
Easy, controlled information sharing
Mobile app for real-time, remote response
Automated remediation scripts

Types of insider threats

Airline employees are used to interacting with a workforce in constant flux, making it harder for permanent employees to question the presence of unfamiliar faces. This leads to situations where malicious insider threats can remain hidden in plain sight. Work environments that employ a large number of contractors and operate “multitenant” operations are always more susceptible to insider attack. An insider can swiftly cause devastation to airport infrastructure, leaving little trace of potential damage until the devastation manifests.

Compromised / Pawn

Employees that don’t know they’re being compromised

Careless

Employees that leave computer or terminal unlocked or
otherwise violate cybersecurity best practices

0-Day insiders

New personnel with little to no background information

Malicious / Expert

Usually have legitimate user access to the system and willfully extract data or intellectual property

Slow poison

Systems slowly moving outside of reasonable parameters

Needle in a haystack

Small incidents such as theft of IP or customer contact lists in a large volume of access pattern data that are difficult to detect

Insider threat protection with the transportation security administration (TSA) - lessons learned

In 2014, Alert Enterprise participated in a pilot project with the TSA, deploying our converged cyber-physical platform to combat insider threats and deliver a unified threat response. The success of the pilot project revealed the power of real-time integration of cyber and physical security systems for identifying, correlating and mitigating insider threat related activity. Since then, Alert Enterprise has been selected and deployed at CATX and CAT1 airports across the globe.

Insider threat protection with the transportation security administration (TSA) - lessons learned

A common digital identity for people and things is a starting point for provisioning airline system, data, network and physical access. Reduce the time and cost for detecting and resolving risk by automating threat protection across aviation IT, physical and operational systems from one place. AI and machine-learning Identity Intelligence technology automatically baseline identity profiles, allowing it to quickly sort through millions of events to detect behavior anomalies and trends for an effective response to potential malicious behavior and policy violations.

Incorporate risk scoring and behavior patterns
into an Identity profile
Visibility across IT, Physical and OT assets
allowing for real-time usage pattern analysis
PRA, background and training checks embedded into a risk score and profile leveraged for access control, granting
and reporting activities
Behavior patterns allow for actionable intelligence to minimize the risk profile to the environment

Identity Intelligence technology helps prevent airline insider threats by maintaining a risk profile for the internal and external workforce, tracking access to critical areas within airports and flight operations. Conducting upfront risk analysis reduces risk and cost, eliminates fraud and enhances security

Airline workforce scheduling - a major risk

Airlines and airports can reduce the risk with converged security that delivers real-time integration between IT work schedule applications and physical access controls systems. There are three common issues when airports don’t know airline workforce schedules

Default is to grant 24/7/365 access
Rogue employees can access areas (e.g. SIDA/Baggage)
outside of their shift hours
Neither Airlines nor Airports have any visibility to the risks

Hire-to-retire identity and credential lifecycle management

Alert Enterprise automates the entire onboarding / offboarding process starting with the pre-enrolment risk analysis that provide a high degree of automating for the vetting process.

End-to-end physical access lifecycle management

Streamline and automate the entire lifecycle management from request to return of all airline assets (ID Badges, Keys, Laptops, etc.), physical and digital access using an online portal and AE’s Guardian workflow engine.
Integrations with various HR, ERP, and IT applications like to offer a “single pane of glass” view of each identity, the “time and place” access provisioned to that identity, and how that access is being used along with reports of any violations or abnormalities.
Continual vetting using integrations with various international, federal, state, and local digital repositories to determine credit history, criminal activity, policy and regulatory violations, and misconduct.
Identity Intelligence compares behavior to a normalized dataset to calculate a dynamic Risk Score which indicates the evolving threat each insider poses to the airline, airport, or organization.
Automatically trigger incident response SOPs with situational intelligence.