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  • ICAO/AWG Joint Regional Workshop on Cross-Border Transferability of Aircraft (XBT) and Compliance with the Cape Town Convention (CTC)
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  • Fourteenth Meeting of the Facilitation Panel (FALP/14)
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Security Culture - Best Practices and Guidance

​ICAO is grateful that the international aviation community have shared their security culture best practices, including educational websites and guidance material on security culture and security awareness and other related initiatives.

ICAO has also developed Security Culture Guidance Material to assist Member States and other organizations.

Websites and Links

  • UK CPNI - Reducing Insider Risk
  • Brazil - ANAC Talks: 2021, o Ano da Cultura AVSEC
  • Brazil - InAVSEC 14 | Ano da Cultura AVSEC Brasil (YOSC)
  • Brazil - ANAC - Responsible Passenger Campaign
  • ACI World Blog - Highlighting Security Culture in the New Post-Pandemic Airport World
  • New Zealand CAA - Security Culture

Guidance material

  • ACI Asia-Pacific RASC - A Guide to Promoting and Assessing Security Culture for Airports
  • Argentina - Guidance Material YOSC 2021 (Spanish)
  • Australia - A guide to developing and implementing a Suspicious Activity Identification Program at airports
  • Canada – AVSEC Level and Menu of Additional Safeguards (English, French)
  • Canada – Industry Guidance - Airport Security Programs (English)
  • Canada – Industry Guidance - Airport Security Programs (French)
  • European Commission - Transport Cybersecurity Toolkit
  • IATA - Categories of Aviation Security Occurrences
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_AR
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_CH
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_EN
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_ES
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_FR
  • ICAO - Cybersecurity Culture in Civil Aviation_RU
  • ICAO - Security Culture Guidance Material
  • New Zealand - Enhancing Your Organisation's Security Culture
  • Singapore and U.S. - Information Sheet on Security Culture
  • Switzerland FOCA - Guidance on development and expansion of SC and awareness raising
  • U.S. - APEC Project on Building a Culture of Security and Countering the Insider Risk - Best Practices Guidelines
  • U.S. - APEC Project on Building Randomness and Unpredictability into AVSEC Countermeasure Development and Implementation
  • U.S. - Inclusion Action Committee Report
  • UK - CPNI - Behavioural Detection Best Practice, Guidance and Advice Brochure
  • UK - CPNI Embedding-Security-Behaviours-Using-5Es
  • UK - Framework for an Aviation Security Managment System (SeMS)
  • UK - Guidance on Human Factors
  • UK - Guidance on Public and Staff Vigilence
  • UK - Passport to Good Security

Presentations

  • 3DAssurance SeMS Experiences
  • Air Macau Limited - Presentation on security culture
  • Bank of England - Building a Security Conscious Culture
  • DGCA Indonesia – Security Culture Workshop
  • India - eCTB on Aviations Security Culture obervance in India
  • Portugal - Presentation on building an effective secuirty culture
  • Switzerland FOCA - Slides on development and expansion of SC and awareness raising
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