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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Well not exactly.

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Want to change the world? ‘Secure’ the Next Killer App in IoT

The Investing Edge

For example, data off airline engines is collected to predict – and prevent – anomalies in the engine throughout the flight. Given the massive amount of data that is being collected today (Merritt says this has grown from terabytes to petabytes daily) how do we keep information secure and who owns it is once it is collected?

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Information Security: Cyber Threats and Data Breaches Illustrate Need for Stronger Controls across Federal Agencies, July 08, 2015 GAO Info Security (Today) - What GAO FoundFederal systems face an evolving array of cyber-based threats. Privileged user authentication and PKI are. Marine Corps, Interior Dept.

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The Sony Hack in Context

CTOvision

Similarly, notwithstanding numerous intelligence warnings of a major pending terrorist attack, nothing was done to strengthen airline or border security, much less go on the offensive against Al Qaeda, until America suffered the loss of over 3000 lives and the destruction of the World Trade Towers on September 11 th , 2001.