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U.S. DOT Orders FAA Cybersecurity Audit
Order comes after 2021 recategorization of systems
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is planning to conduct a cybersecurity audit of the FAA’s “high-impact systems,” the agency announced yesterday. It will begin the audit later this month.

This audit comes after an August 2021 order to reorganize the FAA’s systems as low, moderate, and high-impact. The DOT characterized high-impact systems as those that, “in the event of system failure, would have adverse impact to FAA’s mission and on the safety and efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS).”