Airlines are again in the cybersecurity crosshairs as Qantas reports a major incident involving data belonging to millions of passengers. After recent incidents at Hawaiian and WestJet, information security experts are warning that other aviation industry companies are at risk, since the tactics of these groups often include lateral attacks, which compromise partner companies, customers and clients.
That means cyberattack risk is now elevated across the aviation industry, from airlines all the way down the supply chain. The night before the Qantas incident was revealed, we sat down for an extended episode of our 40,000 Feet podcast with Alex Scroxton, Security Editor at Computer Weekly, who has been tracking these attacks.
We’re making the standard Subscribers version of that episode freely available online below, as a public service to our industry, and encourage you to share it with your network within (and outside) aviation:
For our Subscribers and Pros, we also have a full feature article on these breaches and what they mean, with more about who these attackers are, how they operate, what they want, and how they move between targets — plus best practices to tighten up your cybersecurity wherever you work.
For our Pro-tier subscribers, there’s also an extended edition of the episode already in your podcast app. This looks in more detail at what senior leaders within aviation firms large and small can do to help minimise risk to their companies. You can access our Pro podcasts on your Pro podcasts page.
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