Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex

digital systems for navigation, communication, and engine performance. These systems were once isolated,

but are now interconnected and vulnerable to cyber threats, ranging from GPS spoofing to ransomware

attacks on airline infrastructure.

As nation-state actors and criminal groups grow more sophisticated,

the aviation sector faces a rapidly expanding attack surface, with life or death consequences.

Understanding and addressing these risks is essential, not only for passenger safety,

but for the resilience of

global transportation networks. Serge Christianes is a former Dutch Air Force pilot with the

background in electronic and hybrid warfare. He later flew commercially for Singapore Airlines and is now

the lead instructor and program director at the Aviation Cyber Academy.

He joins the podcast with Gregor Van to discuss the convergence of aviation and cyber security,

the aircraft as a digital attack surface, hybrid warfare, the urgent need for aviation cyber

resilience, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity,

cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies.

He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at van.hk or on LinkedIn.

Music at van.hk or on LinkedIn. Hello, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

My guest today is Serge Christianz. Welcome, Serge. Hi, Gerger. Thank you

very much for the invitation. Yeah, this is a very interesting one for us to do today, as we're going to

get into based on the fact that you are a practicing pilot, but you're also a practicing CISO as well.

So we're going to get into how this has all come about. So I think that's kind of where we should start. We always kind of start with guest's career journey, if you like to call it that. It almost feels like you have two careers, both you've managed, and you're still doing both today. So tell us about how are you doing these two jobs effectively.

Okay, well, I started my career at the military academy in the Netherlands, in the Air Force,

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