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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. IT and infrastructure from the 1990s,” said Casey A. 30, “We’re behind.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

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Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. Often the issue when you’re on the infrastructure side is that one doesn’t really understand the customer pain point,” Nair says.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

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We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” As the zero trust platform provider of choice for 40% of the Fortune 500, Zscaler has long been recognized as the leader in zero trust and, by extension, cloud security. But what exactly does that mean? Zero trust has come a long way.

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Averting turbulence in the air

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The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. With the new, recently onboarded Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0, she wonders. The PCI DSS v4.0,

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The best of the best: Inside this year’s CSO50 Awards

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Providing safe and secure elections is a critical function of local governments – and has been part of a fraught national conversation. The security team investigated and addressed all critical investigations within 24 hours. Successful security initiatives often go unnoticed because they prevent problems. events team.

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Landline wants to fully check you in for your flight — far from the airport

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Running an airline is a tough industry, with many companies either folding shop or merging with rivals to survive. Being an airline passenger isn’t a walk in the park, for a litany of reasons that anyone who has ever been in an airport can easily enumerate. The big idea? Of course, that last step is not minor.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

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When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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