Cyber Monitoring Centre Working With Cirium

The latest news from the Cyber Monitoring Centre, who are working with Cirium;

The Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), is advancing its data-driven approach to analysing and categorising cyber events through an agreement with Cirium – the leading provider of aviation analytics – to understand the effects of cyber events on the UK aviation industry.

Cirium delivers global data and analytics solutions to leaders in finance, aerospace, travel and government. On any given day, Cirium manages more than 300 terabytes of data covering everything from schedules and routes, to aircraft configurations and passenger record numbers. Cirium data provides insights on more than 35 million flights per year.

Cirium’s data has already provided the CMC with insights into the effects of the CrowdStrike cyber event. For three days from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 July, 390 flights were cancelled departing UK airports, impacting 65,000 passengers with a further 1,700 departures delayed by more than an hour.

“Cyber events can have far-reaching impacts on airlines including lost fare income, accommodation costs for stranded passengers, and passenger compensation. Events also cause a knock-on effect to airports, retail businesses in airports, and the broader tourism industry,” comments Ruth Goodwin, Head of Operations at the Cyber Monitoring Centre. “Our partnership with Cirium provides us with valuable data and insights into airline delays and cancellations, and allows us to assess the economic impact to the airlines and other connected industries. This is another example of the robust data driven approach that we are taking to analyse and categorise cyber events to allow more informed decisions to be made around cyber risk.”

“Collaborating with the CMC is a great opportunity to apply Cirium’s vast store of integrated aviation data to understand the real-world impact of a major event. The Crowdstrike event not only highlighted the immediate impact of such an outage, but also the subsequent disruption in the days that followed, as airlines sought to recover the schedule and reaccommodate passengers. We look forward to future collaborations and hope that CMC’s work will add to the industry’s understanding of how to react to future such events,” adds Kevin O’Toole, Chief Strategy Officer at Cirium.