Vitor Correia
- Senior Business Development Manager
- Critical Software
Vitor Correia is an aerospace and defence professional with nearly two decades of international experience supporting safety and security critical programmes across aviation, space and defence. He has worked with major prime contractors including Indra Sistemas, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems, contributing to high reliability, certification driven environments.
He currently serves as Senior Business Development Manager for Aerospace and Defence at Critical Software, representing the company’s avionics and embedded systems capability. Critical Software supports development and independent verification under DO 178C and DO 326A ED 202A, including model based systems engineering, HW SW in the loop testing, mission assurance, RAMS and secure by design cybersecurity aligned with airworthiness requirements.
Vitor holds a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and brings a systems perspective to the integration of safety, security and verification disciplines in regulated aerospace environments.
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Cybersecurity in the Testing Environment
From Point-in-Time Certification to Continuous Assurance: Integrating Product Security into V&V for Aerospace and Defence
Cybersecurity requirements are now integral to the verification and validation (V&V) process for avionics and embedded systems, driven by mandatory compliance with DO-326A / ED-202A series under EASA Part 21 and FAA Special Conditions for connected systems. With increased network exposure (e.g., ACARS, ADS-B, SWIM, onboard Wi-Fi), system-level cybersecurity testing is prioritized alongside traditional safety assessments. Key activities such as threat modeling, penetration testing, secure boot validation, and verification of isolation in mixed-criticality environments provide unique challenges. How does the industry focus on tooling and methodologies that support combined safety and security certification—positioning cybersecurity as a top priority?