The hotel cybersecurity checklist
Cybersecurity is of paramount importance to all businesses, however, in the case of the hospitality industry, it is quite a unique situation
Hotels tend to handle and own a very large amount of data, sometimes in the hundreds of millions of records for some of the bigger brands, which makes them a prime target for cybercrime.
There are different risks involved, but the biggest incidents that have happened in the industry were related to cardholder data and leaks of personal data, and when we are talking about such a huge database, the repercussions in the media and beyond can be devastating to the business.
It has become more important than ever to protect this precious reservoir of information, and hotels should pay attention to the risks incorporating technology brings to their operations, even though cybersecurity isn’t inherently their core responsibility.
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