Cybersecurity Built for Airports
From the curb to the runway, your operation depends on systems that can’t go dark. Assura helps airport authorities meet TSA cybersecurity requirements, defend operational technology, and keep travelers, tenants, and revenue moving without expanding your team.
Airports face a cybersecurity environment no other industry faces.
Commercial and cargo airports run a complex mix of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT), including baggage handling, jet bridges, fueling, building management, access control, perimeter sensors, public Wi-Fi, parking, concessions, and Common Use Passenger Processing Systems (CUPPS) shared with airlines at check-in counters and boarding gates. On top of that, the airport often serves as the underlying network provider for airlines, federal agencies, and tenants, supplying the cable plant, internet connectivity, or both, while keeping those tenant environments logically isolated from the airport’s own networks. A single weak point in the airport’s infrastructure can ground operations, trigger TSA reporting, expose credit card data, and put law-enforcement information at risk.
TSA Security Directives, including the agency’s Joint Emergency Amendment 23-01, raised the bar for airport cybersecurity. They require network segmentation between IT and OT, continuous monitoring, defined incident response, and disciplined patch management. Meeting those expectations with limited in-house resources is hard. Assura’s cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team and managed security services are built to close those gaps quickly, defensibly, and without slowing operations.
Why airports partner with Assura:
- Pass your next TSA cybersecurity site inspection without the last-minute scramble.
- Segment IT, OT, tenant, and public networks the way TSA expects, and prove it.
- Detect and contain threats around the clock, including on the OT systems that move aircraft and bags.
- Stand up a compliant cybersecurity program in weeks, without hiring a full security team.
Services Airports Use Most:
Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Compliance leadership for airports navigating TSA Joint EA 23-01, PCI DSS, NIST CSF 2.0, CJIS, and HIPAA.
- GRC-as-a-Service, a total risk and compliance solution
- Security policies, procedures, and incident response plans aligned to regulatory expectations
- Compliance and risk assessments mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS, and CJIS
- Tenant and third-party vendor oversight
- Reduced time and expense dealing with audits and TSA inspections
Cybersecurity Monitoring
24/7 visibility across IT, OT, and tenant networks, satisfying the continuous monitoring expectations in TSA Joint EA 23-01 and NIST CSF 2.0.
- 24/7/365 threat detection, reporting, and response
- 3-minute Mean Time to Detection (MTTD)
- < 15-minute Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) for critical incidents
- Automation and orchestration of response actions
- Simplified security and compliance reporting for PCI DSS, CJIS, and TSA inspections
Penetration Testing
Find what an attacker would find across public Wi-Fi, tenant connections, CUPPS workstations, payment systems in scope for PCI DSS, and OT segments, before they do.
- External and internal pen testing
- Web application pen testing
- Social engineering
- Penetration Testing-as-a-Service
- Wireless networking, including passenger and tenant Wi-Fi
- Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Stop threats on the endpoints that run airport operations, at machine speed.
- AI-based threat blocking
- Policy configuration and deployment to covered devices
- Forensic analysis of malware incidents
- Maximum endpoint security across operational and administrative systems
- Managed by our award-winning 24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC)
Security Assessment
Know exactly where you stand against TSA Joint EA 23-01, PCI DSS, NIST CSF 2.0, and CJIS, and what to fix first.
- A complete assessment of your security posture
- Assessment report with a roadmap to your goals
- Significant trends and findings
- Prioritized remediation guidance
- Supporting data
Vulnerability Management-as-a-Service
Continuous discovery, prioritization, and remediation tracking across IT and OT, satisfying the patch management and vulnerability identification requirements in TSA Joint EA 23-01.
- Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning of internal, external, and tenant-facing assets
- Safe scanning approaches for sensitive OT and CUPPS environments
- Risk-based prioritization aligned to PCI DSS, CJIS, and NIST CSF 2.0
- Remediation tracking and validation rescans
- Audit-ready reporting for TSA inspections and regulatory examiners
Is it time to bring in an airport cybersecurity partner?
Most airport leaders we talk to recognize at least one of these:
You need to demonstrate compliance with TSA Joint EA 23-01, PCI DSS, or CJIS, and you don’t have the in-house capacity to do it.
Your IT team is excellent at running the airport, but they’re not staffed to run a 24/7 cybersecurity program.
You’ve had an incident, a near miss, or an audit finding, and you don’t want a repeat.
You want a single partner who understands airports, OT, and the regulators who oversee both.
Guaranteed compliance with these airport-related standards and regulations:
- TSA Joint EA 23-01
- PCI DSS
- NIST CSF 2.0
- CJIS
- HIPAA
Why you can rest assured this
will be taken care of.
If you get audited, Assura has you covered. Our AuditArmor® Audit Defense Guarantee means we guarantee our work to be compliant with the identified cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements (unless waived by you). We defend our work at no additional cost. Yes, we’re serious. And yes, we’re that confident in the quality of our work. We have you covered from the entrance conference to the exit conference and will work with your auditor or regulator to defend our work. On the off chance a change needs to be made to the deliverable, we’ll do it for free. It’s that simple.
