Aviation Security and Risk Mitigation Strategies

Running head: AVIATION SECURITY AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES
Aviation Security and Risk Mitigation Strategies
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AVIATION SECURITY AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES1
Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................2
2.1 The Present Scenario of Australian Airports.........................................................................2
2.2 Current Aviation Security Threats.........................................................................................3
2.3 Aviation Security & Risk Mitigation Strategies....................................................................5
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

AVIATION SECURITY AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES2
1. Introduction
The industry of aviation is faced with many forms of unprecedented challenges that
might range over a dynamic range of topics. In the recent times, Australia is under a major
pressure from the increasing threat scenarios that are affecting the aviation environment. Hence,
the risks and threats over the aviation environment is being constantly evolving as they make use
of complex and sophisticated forms of physical attacks over the aviation and aircraft
infrastructure. Different kinds of security threats are mostly faced by the aviation sector based on
low emphasis over the security standards that are set for the industry (Gillen & Morrison, 2015).
The policies that are put in place needs to be restructured, which would further help in creating a
new dimension and curbing the present security standards.
The following parts of the discussion would put emphasis over the risks and threats that
are being affecting the aviation sector of Australia. Based on the discussed scenario of threats,
each of the risk mitigation actions would also be supported that would help in improving the
present scenario at Australia and thus majorly boost the industry.
2. Discussion
2.1 The Present Scenario of Australian Airports
Australia owns nine designated airports from where most of the aviation functions are
being performed. The focus of the airport officials are majorly based over the security aspects
that should be developed for the airports. In 2015, it had been reported that 60 million passengers
would have travelled on different forms of Australian domestic aviation spaces (Naji et al.,
2019). In this report, it was also discussed that there were 33.9 million overseas travelers in both
arrival and departure for the year 2014-15.