A Guide to Protecting Aviation and Aerospace Networks with a Control Blueprint

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About this guide

This guide is written for security, infrastructure and risk leaders who need to block ingress by default and open an air-lock only for verified, time-bound reach. It explains one Control Blueprint, CP-07, in plain terms: the failure it addresses, the Control Modules it uses, how those modules work together, and how a deployment is scoped.

Control by Firevault is a suite of nine purpose-built modules: a set of tools and techniques that give you physical control over the paths into and across your estate. A Control Blueprint is a proven combination of those modules assembled for a specific outcome. This guide covers one blueprint. The Control overview covers the nine modules and the full set of blueprints.

The problem this blueprint addresses

Aviation and aerospace estates mix airline IT, MRO systems, avionics test benches, ground handling and airport operations, each with its own suppliers and update cycles. A single permanently open ingress path can expose all of them at once.

CP-07 at a glance

• Lead layer FIRE
• Primary modules Firebreak, Isolate, Validate, Relay
• Supporting modules Lock, Archive, Execute
• Typical sectors Aerospace, aviation, defence, MRO and ground operations, airport IT

The primary modules

These modules do the work the blueprint is named for.

• Firebreak physically breaks the connection path, so a route only exists when it is deliberately opened.
• Isolate separates an environment at hardware level, so a compromised zone cannot reach a clean one.
• Validate checks the request, command or identity before anything opens.
• Relay opens a controlled, time-bound crossing and closes it again on schedule.

The supporting modules

These modules round out the pattern and are usually added as the deployment matures.

• Lock holds access to the systems that matter behind identity and condition controls.
• Archive preserves logs, records and evidence beyond the reach of the live estate.
• Execute fires the control action on signal, without waiting for a change window.

What good looks like

• No inbound session, sync or update reaches an operational zone unless explicitly opened.
• Flight-critical, ground handling and corporate zones stay physically apart.
• Every ingress request is checked against identity, authority and airworthiness policy.
• The inner door opens only once the outer door is proved closed.

How the blueprint is deployed

Control Modules are a suite of tools and techniques deployed within your own estate and applied to the paths they govern: at a boundary, inside a zone, or at a third-party edge. Authorisation and evidence remain local, so losing connectivity to Firevault never opens a path.

Most deployments start with a single boundary or zone, prove the control behaviour, then extend the same blueprint across the estate. Modules can be customer-operated or co-managed.

How to scope it

Scoping starts with the paths, not the product. A short discovery exercise identifies the boundaries that matter, who needs to cross them, how often, and what evidence is required. That produces the module count and placement, which in turn produces the price. Blueprints are combined where an estate has more than one problem to solve.

Next steps

• Read the full blueprint detail: CP-07 blueprint
• See all nine modules and the other blueprints: Control by Firevault
• Talk it through with our team: contact Firevault

How Firevault would handle this

Access decided by you, not assumed by the network

Control by Firevault removes standing pathways and replaces them with connection windows you approve, so stolen credentials and compromised suppliers have nothing standing to abuse.