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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board

GeekWire

Seattle venture capitalist Adriane Brown is joining the board of American Airlines Group, one of the largest airlines in the world. Last year, use of the company’s software surged and it raised $30 million in funding. Microsoft-owned GitHub appointed former Cisco executive Mike Hanley as its first chief security officer.

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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

The Verge

Boeing’s 747-400 aircraft, first introduced in 1988, is still receiving critical software updates through 3.5-inch The Register reports that security researchers at Pen Test Partners recently got access to a British Airways 747, after the airline decided to retire its fleet following a plummet in travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

GeekWire

Alaska Airlines has made electronic bag tags available to elite Mileage Plan members, with a broader rollout planned in the first half of this year. Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags. Alaska is the first U.S.

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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. The PCI DSS v4.0,

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Nearly a third (31%) of respondents said they are building internal private clouds using hybrid cloud management solutions such as software-defined storage and API-consistent hardware to make the private cloud more like public cloud, Forrester adds. But he maintains the security of AWS public cloud is rock-solid.

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NASCO data breach exposes 800k users

Dataconomy

This security breach happened due to a cyberattack on files stored on their MOVEit servers. NASCO, which handles benefits administration for Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance customers, fell victim to this attack on their MOVEit Transfer software.

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