bengaluru as threat perceptions of cybercrime increase in the aviation sector airports across the world are gearing up to tackle them given that they sit on large sets of data and are heavily dependent on computer systems for daily operations in line with the global trend bangalore international airport limited bial which operates kempegowda international airport kia is also in the process of acquiring and implementing new tools that prevent data theft and leakage apart from restricting access to outsiderskia handles a whopping 1tb of data every day including personal information of passengers and critical information of airlines given the high dependence on computerised automated systems to run daily operations outsiders gaining access to servers could cripple the airport within minutesso far there has been no data leakage or intrusion reported at kia but arvind mathur chief technology officer bial said we are implementing data leakage prevention dlp solution distributed denial of service ddos solution privileged identityaccess management and advanced endpoint security solution which will strengthen the cyber safety mechanismmathur added that bial aims to ensure all data it deals with is protected with the most uptodate and secure programmes thereby ensuring that the stakeholder data is not open to any form of riskcybercrime expert mirza faizan asad said a ddos attack can completely cripple the airport so it is paramount that they have a stateoftheart tool to prevent intrusions and so far as protection of data goes it is the basic responsibility of the airportsafe storage mathur while pointing out to a host of technologies that are already in place at kia and being upgraded periodically said all corporate data is stored in secured systems in dedicated data centres physical access to data centres is restricted with access control management while logical access is restricted to authorised personnel at the time and place it is required based on a need to know and least privilege principle we ensure that the confidentiality of information is protected while also maintaining integrity of the data he said