• Baggage handling procedures we’ve been having there’s a real need monstrous liability issue. You have to
• Gate management procedures to ensure that the person who did the have high confidence that the liability
maintenance is the one who signs off on is mitigated. That’s where strong
CertiPath credentials are the log. When we move into electronic signature credentials come from.
interoperable with those being records you really have to start looking Jeff Nigriny tells Aviation
deployed for GateLink applications at it as a true digital signature. Maintenance “We meet with the
by the Air Transport Association (ATA) “If you do not have integrity in the FAA regularly and their question to
and ultimately airports will need to issuance of the identity credentials us is ‘How ready would the aviation
credential gates leveraging CertiPath- that you’re going to use, then the community be to transmit essentially
compliant credentials. whole scheme falls apart. To support all the records in electronic format
CertPath PKI-based credentials the aircraft maintenance worker you both to the airline and the FAA
combine software, encryption need to provide digital credentials simultaneously so that auditors would
technologies, and services to establish that are strong, that can assert non- not have to travel to the airports, but
trusted identities. It offers a flexible repudiation of the event, that focus rather get a direct feed and obviously
model, allowing the procurement on how you gain access to the aircraft, you have to have some accountability/
of trustworthy credentials from your statement of completion of the traceability in that?’
certified service providers. Larger logs that are then digitally signed by “Particularly interesting right now
organizations with an in-house that individual. are the software loadable modules
identity management capability can “We think we have more of an that we’re seeing on the Airbus A380
become CertiPath-certified, meeting automation transition problem. It’s and the Boeing 787 and in retrofits;
the interoperability objectives. our belief that people take this very those are all being digitally signed.
Aviition Maintenance spoke to seriously with paper records, but as If you’re a supplier to Boeing, for
CertPath’s president Jeff Nigriny and it’s you move forward into electronic instance, the avionics software can
vice president of operations, Stephen records, it’s sort of like in union be digitally signed before you hand
P Howard. Mr Howard said “From a time keeping rules, you have friend it over to Boeing. If you’re buying a
maintenance perspective there’s quite punch you out. Here we find with 787 or a 380 you’d also need a similar
a culture of accuracy within the signed the maintenance log it’s a liability credential. So I can re-certify the
records of the maintenance work that’s issue, especially if an airport hired avionics every time I make an update.
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