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IT and Cybersecurity Consulting Services

SkyGuard: Operational resilience for a digitally connected ecosystem

Delivering OEM-agnostic integrated cybersecurity, risk management, and digital assurance across the aviation ecosystem

SkyGuard is Boeing’s end-to-end cybersecurity solution for aviation operators.

Built on the principles of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, SkyGuard translates globally recognized cybersecurity standards into aviation-specific operational resilience.

Our approach aligns security, safety, compliance, regulatory requirements, and mission continuity so aviation operators remain operationally ready. SkyGuard ensures aircraft depart on time, maintenance systems remain trusted, flight operations continue uninterrupted, and regulators have confidence in your cybersecurity governance.

The result is faster detection, controlled mitigation, and regulator-ready evidence that preserves schedules, safety, and reputation.

Operational continuity

Protects mission-critical systems to minimize disruption and keep fleets flying safely and reliably.

Regulatory confidence

Aligns governance, controls, and documentation to global aviation cybersecurity expectations, ensuring audit readiness and defensible compliance.

Impact-driven risk

Prioritizes cyber risk based on operational, safety, and enterprise impact, focusing investment where resilience matters most.

Integrated protection

Unifies aircraft systems, operational technology, and enterprise IT into a cohesive, end-to-end security posture.

Resilient response

Delivers aviation-specific incident response and recovery planning designed to contain threats without grounding operations.

Secure innovation

Enables digital transformation, connected aircraft, and advanced analytics with cybersecurity engineered in from the start.

OEM-agnostic coverage

Integrates avionics, MRO, and ground systems telemetry to deliver a unified view independent of equipment vendor.

Continuous improvement

Closes gaps and reduces recurrence over time through iterative model refinement, red-team exercises, and governance cycles.

Customer outcomes

Reduced operational disruption
Minimize flight delays, maintenance system outages, and operational downtime caused by cyber events, protecting revenue, strengthening passenger trust, and ensuring on-time performance.
Faster, evidence-ready compliance
Streamline regulatory alignment and documentation through structured governance to accelerate regulator reporting and audit readiness.
Lower incident uncertainty
Reduce time spent on investigations and increase confidence in remediation decisions using correlated telemetry and causal analysis.

What sets SkyGuard apart

Aviation-focused governance
Integrated cybersecurity with flight operations, engineering, safety management, and global regulatory oversight to deliver clear accountability, audit-ready compliance, and operationally grounded risk management.
AI-driven event prioritization
Machine-learning-based analysis of operational impact, safety risk, and system criticality to ensure resources focus on the threats that matter most to fleet performance and operational resilience.
Regulator-ready evidence
Audit-ready transparency and clear compliance through captured, documented, and validated cybersecurity and operational controls across the entire aviation ecosystem.
Operational playbook integration
Purpose-built operational playbooks for coordinated, regulator-aligned response and rapid recovery without disrupting mission-critical performance.
OEM-agnostic architecture
Heterogeneous fleet and tooling integration, enabling consistent monitoring without requiring vendor-specific lock-in.

SkyGuard consulting services

Holistic aviation-focused cybersecurity

At Boeing, we safeguard the integrity and availability of your aviation operation against evolving cyber threats by integrating advanced threat detection, comprehensive risk assessment, and risk management strategies to enhance operational resilience.

AI analytics and anomaly detection

Machine-learning models are calibrated to operator telemetry, allowing us to identify significant deviations and cluster-related events, as well as to prioritize alerts based on operational impact.

Playbooks, escalation, and governance

Our prebuilt, customizable incident playbooks with tiered escalation help to align roles across flight operations, engineering, SOC, legal, and comms. Embedded governance ensures decisions map to safety cases and regulatory requirements, keeping responses auditable and defensible.

Prioritization and recommended actions

Events are scored by operational impact and likelihood. We present integrated recommended mitigations with role-based guidance, reducing decision time and preserving safety and schedules during incidents.

Regulator mapping and evidence collection

We produce regulator-ready packages for audit and reporting using automated mapping of controls and continuous evidence capture. This lowers the effort of compliance preparation and demonstrates lifecycle integration of cybersecurity.

Built-in aviation domain expertise

Boeing brings nearly five decades of aircraft and operational experience, so cybersecurity controls, playbooks, and governance models are grounded in how airlines actually operate — not just IT theory.

Aviation-first, operation-aligned governance

We align cybersecurity governance with flight operations, maintenance, and engineering to ensure risk management, accountability, and compliance directly tie to mission-critical, operational priorities.

Regulator-ready compliance and evidence

Our controls, continuous evidence capture, and mapping to FAA, EASA, and other civil aviation guidance — and to standards like DO-355A/ED-204A and DO-392/ED-206 — make audits and reporting faster and less disruptive.

OEM-agnostic, operationally focused technology

Our solutions ingest and normalize telemetry across avionics buses, MRO systems, and network and cloud logs, providing a unified view across heterogeneous fleets without vendor lock-in, as well as consistent monitoring across mixed equipment.

AI-driven prioritization that reduces operational load

Our machine-learning analytics cluster events, surface causal chains, and provide ranked, actionable recommendations so teams spend less time investigating noise and more time executing high-value mitigations.

Embedded playbooks and workflow integration

We’ve embedded role-specific incident playbooks, ticketing integration, and recommended actions into existing operator workflows so responses are coordinated and auditable while minimizing schedule disruptions.

Lifecycle approach and continuous improvement

We support from discovery and baseline risk through pilots, operationalization, and ongoing refinement (red teams, model tuning, governance cycles) to deliver measurable reduction in recurrence and improved maturity over time.

Proven programmatic experience and ecosystem partnerships

We combine our consulting experience with integrations to industry tools and established aviation practices so deployments are pragmatic, defensible, and designed to scale.