The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs Get Involved In Efforts To Prevent Airplanes From Being Hacked


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As though airline CIOs didn’t have enough to worry about dealing with the importance of information technology,  some people in the CIO job are now having to worry about IT systems  that spend their time flying from city to city. 

CIOs for the major  airlines have become aware that their company’s most expensive assets,  their airplanes, may be vulnerable to hacking attacks. As  airplanes have become more and more modern, the number of IT systems  that they contain has been increasing. The result of this is that each  airplane is almost as complex as a flying data center and it has as many  vulnerabilities. 

This means that CIOs need to take steps to find ways  to protect them.

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The Accidental Successful CIOBy Jim Anderson