Case Study: Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport achieves 24/7 cyber readiness and proactive threat mitigation with Picus Security

Continuous Validation Helps in Keeping Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (ISG) Airport Safe

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport faced the challenge of protecting a sprawling, always-on aviation complex — managing nearly 3,000 endpoints and over 100 servers while serving millions of passengers — from sophisticated state-level and criminal cyber threats, all while maximizing security ROI and operational agility. To gain actionable visibility and faster mitigation, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport adopted Picus Security’s Continuous Security Validation solution, including its Threat Library, Mitigation Library, and emulation modules for network, endpoint and email assessment.

Picus Security continuously validates ISG’s defenses with daily-updated threat emulations and security scores, enabling the team to see which attacks are blocked or unblocked, prioritize remediation with technology-specific mitigation guidance, and tune controls for better performance. As a result, ISG achieved improved threat readiness and visibility, better utilization of existing security controls, and the ability to support investment requests with evidence-based metrics — making the airport’s critical infrastructure more proactively protected.

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

Fatih Çelik

Security Expert