Low-cost airline Flybe is encrypting customers' credit
card data and consolidated reports about network traffic and
security incidents to comply with thePayment Card
Industry's Data Security
Standard.
Flybe has 20 million visitors a year to its website, and it
takes 85% of its bookings for its 7.5 million passengers a year
over the internet. It will use RSA's enVision technology to monitor
incoming and outgoing database traffic and report exceptions from
more than 2,000 terminals.
Chris Cooper, Flybe's IT security manager and PCI project
leader, said the move was part of a pre-existing plan to upgrade
network and information security. "It was integral to our plan to
integrate all information messages to a single control point," he
said.
Logs from Flybe's intrusion detection and prevention systems
will go through the enVision tool for analysis and response to
exceptions. Cooper said the growth of the business had considerably
increased the volume of data flow. This meant the company had
looked for a highly scalable system.
Matt Linsey, head of Flybe's IT services, said the airline
industry is especially sensitive to security issues. "It was not
hard to convince the board once we had explained the business case
for the system," he said.
Flybe worked with systems integrator Gradian on the
implementation.