Matt Blackmon is vice president of customer success for the Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Practice at DataArt, a global software engineering firm. Here he provides a primer on the cybersecurity issues facing those involved in handling corporate travel data.
As business travel recovers, corporations will allow employees back on planes and they will reach back to their trusted TMC partners for travel planning and process management. When they do, TMCs must be fully prepared. Cobwebs from more than a year of meager demand need to be cleaned out and processes may need a restart — with less headcount. To mitigate security risks and avoid cybersecurity incidents, TMCs should keep in mind the following common security weaknesses and types of cyber attacks.
Ransomware
The business travel management segment of the travel industry is particularly attractive to hackers because it deals with large volumes of traveler information, transaction details and…