Who is the Aerospace Playbook written for?

Cyber security engineers, OT architects, avionics and mission-system leads, MRO and supplier assurance teams and airport or airline CISOs. It is written to be read alongside the engineering teams who will implement the controls.

How is a control blueprint different from an aviation cyber policy?

A policy describes intent. A control blueprint describes decisions: which pathways may exist, in which operational state, for what purpose, and how they are physically stopped and recovered. The playbook is organised around those decisions and the evidence needed to prove them.

Does the playbook recommend specific tooling?

No. It is deliberately vendor-neutral and framework-agnostic. It sets out the registers, states and control patterns that a mature aviation operating model needs, and leaves tooling and platform choices to your architecture team.

How long is it and how is it delivered?

28 pages, roughly 22 minutes to read. Request it with your work email and a secure access link arrives within a minute; access is tied to that address.

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

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01Foreword

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 · Co-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.

02What'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.

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

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

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

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

03Who 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 aviationAerospace manufacturing and MROAirport and ground operationsDefence and mission systems

05Frequently asked

Questions leaders ask before requesting.

Something else on your mind? Reply to any Firevault email or write to founders@fire-vault.com.

06More Firevault playbooks

Each playbook is written for the people who own the decision, practical, UK-grounded and free to request.

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