--- title: "A Control Blueprint for Aerospace & Aviation | Firevault" url: https://fire-vault.com/playbook/aerospace description: "A 28-page engineering blueprint for communication pathways, operational states, ground and mission segments, MRO and supplier access, rapid isolation and…" lang: en-GB --- Firevault Aerospace Playbook # A Control Blueprint for Aerospace & Aviation Control the Path. Protect the Mission. Preserve the Aircraft. A 28-page engineering blueprint for communication pathways, operational states, ground and mission segments, MRO and supplier access, rapid isolation and assured recovery across aerospace and aviation. 28 pages 22 min read Cyber security engineers and OT architects Image: A Control Blueprint for Aerospace & Aviation cover (https://fire-vault.com/__l5e/assets-v1/bb5110b1-edcd-4a3a-93fc-af134ae6e4b7/aerospace-cover.jpg) ## Get the playbook Emailed to you within a minute 01 Foreword ## Written by the people who build the controls. This is a control blueprint, not an aircraft-security checklist. Aviation control is the discipline of deciding which path may exist, for what purpose, for how long and under whose authority, before connectivity becomes consequence. **Mark Fermor** · CTO, CMO & Founder, Firevault > The doctrine > > Control the path. Govern the agent. Protect the asset. > > Every Firevault playbook is grounded in the same doctrine behind our Offline Secure Storage® platform, so a decision taken in one chapter still holds in the next. It sets out the communication registers, operational states and physical controls that let engineering teams govern the pathways an aircraft, an airport and a mission system depend on, so that connectivity is a decision the operator makes, not an assumption inherited from the network. 02 What's inside ## 4 parts. Written for the people who own the decision. Each chapter opens with the decision it exists to help you make, and closes with the evidence you should expect back. 01 ### The connected aviation reality How modern aircraft, airports and mission systems have become continuously reachable, and what that continuous reachability means for engineering control, safety cases and regulatory posture. - Connectivity is now a design surface, not a background utility - Every open path is a control decision that should be justified 02 ### Communication airlocks A pattern language for controlling aircraft, ground and supplier communications: registers of pathways, operational states, and the physical airlocks that decide when a path can exist at all. - Pathways move between defined states, not permanent on or off - Isolation must be a physical action, not a policy statement 03 ### Ground, mission and suppliers How to apply the same control model to airport OT, mission and ground segments, MRO tooling and supplier exchange, so that third-party access is bounded, evidenced and reversible. - Third-party access windows are the highest-risk pathway to govern - Ground and mission networks need the same registers as the aircraft 04 ### Rapid protection and adoption A staged adoption route: baseline register, targeted airlocks, exercised isolation, and a recovery model that proves the fleet, the airport and the mission can be brought back to a known good state. - Adoption begins with a register, not a rebuild - Rapid isolation and assured recovery are two halves of the same control 03 Who it's for ## Read it if you're accountable for the decision. - Cyber security engineers and OT architects - Aviation IT, avionics and mission-system leads - MRO, ground operations and supplier assurance teams - Airport and airline CISOs and heads of resilience Sectors we hear from Commercial aviation Aerospace manufacturing and MRO Airport and ground operations Defence and mission systems 05 Frequently asked ## Questions leaders ask before requesting. Something else on your mind? Reply to any Firevault email or write to founders@fire-vault.com. ### Who is the Aerospace Playbook written for? ### How is a control blueprint different from an aviation cyber policy? ### Does the playbook recommend specific tooling? ### How long is it and how is it delivered? 06 More Firevault playbooks ## Board-level control blueprints. Each playbook is written for the people who own the decision, practical, UK-grounded and free to request. ## Ready to read it? Request A Control Blueprint for Aerospace & Aviation. Access opens on this page straight away, so you can read it here and download the PDF. We email a secure link to the same address as a backup. 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