Aviation Security

Terrorism

While the digital domain still can't seem to be completely abused by fear-based oppressors and other non-state on-screen characters, the US keeps on observing their enthusiasm for the frameworks and systems related to the Aeronautics Ecosystem. it has been recently reported that. It as been reported By the CBSN that "According to State Police, Parfeni went out a Terminal C exit door, accessed the tarmac, and briefly entered a plane’s cargo hold before he was removed by JetBlue employees", (CBSN, 2019). This was an alleged terrorist act, which was identified and acted upon. Terrorist have shown clear expectation and capacity to hurt the United States and its worldwide interests and stay an extreme risk of flying. Terrorist' proceeded with enthusiasm for assaulting the Flying Domain has been shown by the al-Shabaab assault on Daallo Airlines (2016) what's more, the assault on MetroJet Flight 9268 in Egypt (2015), for which ISIS guaranteed obligation. Both of these assaults were evaluated to be the work, to a limited extent, of radicalized insiders.

TSA comprises of several layers created to alleviate security breach, all of which are important and work together in the case of terrorism. However, the mitigation scheme/ plan that is of the main focus is the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The JTTFs are operational units that direct field examinations of genuine or potential terrorist dangers. JTTFs fill in as a national asset and make commonality among examiners and administrators before an emergency by leading successive preparation to keep up the specific aptitudes of specialists, investigators, and emergency reaction groups. JTTFs pool abilities, aptitudes, and information from over the law requirement and insight networks into a solitary group that reacts together. The TSA team stops at nothing to ensure that each individual is scanned, pat down and a high tech security system is used to ensure there are no suspicious terrorist operations. The team has been working together since 2001 to ensure safety during travel (TSA, 2017). The use of scanners for fingerprint and facial recognition, including the red flag system has helped to minimize any act of terrorism in the present time. Even though few mishaps have happened in the past they continue to upgrade their system while train personnel to be more effective. 

Another effective strategy would be to scan packages after they've boarded the plane and or create storage sensitive areas for luggage. This would allow for 24 hours detection, and surveillance, allowing more than one individual to be on the lookout via a screen.

Reference

CBSN. Boston. (2019). Man breaches security, enters plane's cargo hold at Logan airport. Retrieved from: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/12/02/logan-airport-security-breach-sergiu-parfeni-cargo-hold/

Transport Security Association (TSA). (2017). Inside look: TSA layers of security. Retrieved from: https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2017/08/01/inside-look-tsa-layers-security.