Patent ID: 8769608

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an e-enabled aircraft including an aircraft data processing system; a network data processing system configured for use at an airport, the network data processing system in communication with the aircraft data processing system; a policy manager comprising a processor, the policy manager configured to manage a number of policies based on a threat level for the airport, the policy manager further configured to identify a number of undesired events for the network data processing system and the aircraft data processing system and identify a number of actions to be performed in response to the number of undesired events, the number of undesired events including undesired events in categories selected from the group consisting of safety events, security events, business events, and operational events, and the policy manager further configured to adjust the threat level based on identifying a number of undesired events from more than one category of events; a policy specifier configured to receive input, to identify information for use in identifying the threat level for the airport, and to generate the number of policies for the data processing system and the aircraft data processing system; and a number of agents configured to run on the network data processing system and configured to implement the number of policies on the network data processing system and the aircraft data processing system.