UPS's single European air hub (3,000+ staff, 190,000 packages/hour, 40+ nightly freighter movements), FedEx's CEE hub and DHL Express all run through CGN. This is one of Europe's most automation-dense airports — and automation means a vast OT/ICS attack surface where a single hour of downtime cascades across a continent's logistics.
CGN connected the entire airport over a private 5G network for real-time data. Powerful — and a brand-new, business-critical attack surface that needs purpose-built security.
A €25M CT-scanner security checkpoint completing summer 2026, a new €6M goods control centre (Cargo West), an Airport Operation Control Centre since 2023, and a climate-infrastructure programme. CGN took over its own passenger screening in January 2025 (3rd German airport to do so).
CGN hosts the Flugbereitschaft (German government flight service). That elevates the threat profile and the bar for trusted, sovereign security partners.
NIS2UmsuCG is live (6 Dec 2025, no transition). CGN is KRITIS and a “besonders wichtige Einrichtung”: §38 liability, §32 reporting, §30 supply-chain duties, €10M/2% fines. With three global logistics tenants on shared infrastructure, the supply-chain and multi-tenant obligations are unusually heavy.
Sorting systems, kilometres of conveyors, vacuum lifters, 3D scanners, building and energy management — the cargo OT estate is what attackers covet and what a 24/7 hub cannot afford to lose. Most airports' security spend skews to IT; CGN's risk is in the OT.
A campus 5G network and shared airside infrastructure across UPS/FedEx/DHL create identity, segmentation and OT-convergence risks that generic IT security doesn't address.
The defining need: secure the sorting, conveyor, building and energy OT that runs the hub 24/7.
A new campus 5G network is a new, critical attack surface.
Three logistics giants on shared infrastructure, under a now-in-force NIS2 supply-chain regime.
Zero-downtime operations need round-the-clock detection spanning IT and OT.
An hour of downtime here is a logistics emergency; response must be instant and rehearsed.
An active climate-friendly infrastructure programme.
Airbus Protect secures industrial and OT environments as a primary competence — the exact need a logistics-and-automation hub like CGN has, and the area most cyber firms under-serve.
An Airbus subsidiary clears the trust bar a site co-located with the Flugbereitschaft requires. Sovereignty and discretion are built in.
With UPS, FedEx and DHL on shared infrastructure under live NIS2 supply-chain duties, Airbus Protect's third-party assurance and GRC are directly on point.
CGN is simultaneously an airport and an industrial logistics plant. Airbus Protect uniquely covers both worlds.