In 2022, Member States of the Schengen Area will be required to have a biometric entry and exit system to register non-European citizens crossing an EU external border. Thales has been selected by the French Ministry of the Interior to deliver several hundred pre-registration kiosks at various border crossing points. Therefore, France will be equipped […]

WALLIX, a European publisher of cybersecurity software and an expert in Identity and Access Security solutions, has announced that Bordeaux Airport has deployed its WALLIX Bastion platform in a move to strengthen data protection and provide secure remote access. Working with integrator NXO France, Bordeaux Airport deployed WALLIX’s flagship solution, enabling improved security and enhanced […]

Canadian airplane manufacturer, Bombardier has announced that it recently suffered a limited cybersecurity breach. An initial investigation revealed that an unauthorized party accessed and extracted data by exploiting a vulnerability affecting a third-party file-transfer application, which was running on purpose-built servers isolated from the main Bombardier IT network. In accordance with established cybersecurity procedures and […]

NEC Corporation has announced that Lufthansa Airlines and Swiss International Airlines (SWISS), Lufthansa Group airline members of Star Alliance, launched the ‘Star Alliance Biometrics’ identity verification platform, utilising NEC’s facial recognition technologies, at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport. NEC and Star Alliance have been co-operating since July 2019 in the development of an identity verification platform […]

We spoke to Pascal Buchner, CIO, International Air Transport Association (IATA) & confirmed Keynote Speaker ahead of the 2020 Cyber Security in Aviation virtual event happening on November 25th , organised by the team behind the Dubai Air Show which is due to take place from the 14-18 November 2021. He tells us how the […]

With the aviation industry being one of the sectors most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Tara Mulrooney, VP for Technology and Innovation, Edmonton International Airport, one of the keynote speakers at November’s Cyber Security in Aviation virtual event, tells us how the industry is utilising technology to rapidly recover. The event is organised by the team behind the Dubai […]

With the aviation industry being one of the sectors most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian Cobb, Chief Innovation Officer at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and one of the speakers at Cybersecurity in Aviation, exclusively tells us how the industry is utilising technology to put itself back on the road to recovery. How important is the […]

Pegasus was in need of a solution that would provide enterprise-grade security in the cloud, rather than on-premises. Forcepoint’s solution has enabled the aviation provider to have greater visibility over user activity, enabling it to apply cloud security correlated to individual employee needs depending on how they operate. Founded on the idea that everyone has […]

EasyJet, a European aviation giant, has announced that it has experienced an extremely sophisticated cyberattack affecting over 9 million of its customers. A total of 2,208 customers have also had their credit card details ‘accessed’, and email addresses and travel details have been stolen. The airline said in a statement: “As soon as we became […]

Airport security has always been a number one priority and the COVID-19 pandemic creates a greater need to ensure passenger safety. Firas Jadalla, Regional Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) at Genetec, explains how airports can increase security through surveillance solutions. Keeping passengers safe has always been an airport’s number one priority […]