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Airport Executive Suggests Aviation Industry Needs Mandated Cyber Security Standards

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 6th, 2018

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Airport Executive Suggests Aviation Industry Needs Mandated Cyber Security Standards

Cyber security standards and best practices don’t appear to be widely adopted by airports and given pervasive cyber threats Congress should consider directing the adoption of these standards across the aviation industry, an airport executive told a House panel on Thursday.Citing a 2015 survey, Michael Stephens, executive vice president for Information Technology and General Counsel at Tampa International Airport in Florida, said that only 34 percent of respondents “indicated that they had implemented a national cyber security standard or framework.”…

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