Juliette Kayyem: FAA System Lacked ‘Fail Safer’ Protections To Limit Consequences of Technical Failures

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KAYYEM: “Yeah. If it‘s if it‘s connected, it‘s vulnerable. We I don‘t talk in the world of complex systems that I work in. I don‘t talk about safe. I talk about safer. Right. So you‘re and you‘re learning to, to make things safer by redundancies, by greater resiliency, by protecting the system. So, so that if there is a cyber security breach, it‘s it‘s quickly identified and halted. And we have this concept called fail safer. It‘s not just that you fail safe, right, but that you if something bad happens, you‘re able to limit the consequences that did not occur here. They had an on off switch. Basically, something bad happened. They could not stop it. And out of an abundance of caution, when you‘re talking about the flying public, you are going to turn off the proverbial light switch, get these planes safe, get these passengers safe, and then figure out what happened.“