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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. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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United Airlines CISO Deneen DeFiore on elevating cyber’s value to the business

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Deneen DeFiore is a Hall of Fame technology executive who currently serves as vice president and chief information security officer at United Airlines, where she leads the cybersecurity and digital risk organization to ensure the company is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats. What are they?

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

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As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. Digital Technology’s job is to collect, structure, and secure the data, and help our operational groups exploit it.

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Address cybersecurity challenges before rolling out robotic process automation

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For example, when major airlines were bombarded with cancellation requests at the onset of the pandemic, RPA became essential to their customer service strategy. Throughout 2021, security teams will begin to realize the unconsidered security challenges of robotic process automation. Understanding RPA’s digital identity.

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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. Delivering a zero-trust security posture is an integral part of a SASE architecture and integral to emerging SASE offerings.”

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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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