Case Study: SITA (air transport IT specialist) achieves proactive real-time aviation threat detection with Recorded Future (threat intelligence provider)

SITA - Customer Case Study

SITA, the world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and IT solutions, faced rising cyber risk as the airline industry moved to commodity technologies and operated on a global, networked infrastructure vulnerable to APTs and other attacks. Before Recorded Future, SITA’s intelligence gathering was limited and often produced irrelevant results, so it adopted Recorded Future’s real-time threat intelligence to gain timely, actionable visibility into threats across the air transport sector.

Recorded Future implemented continuous, automated harvesting and real-time analytics (650,000 open-web sources, in seven languages, 24/7) via its patented Web Intelligence Engine, with tailored alerts and dashboards to cut noise and focus SOC efforts. As a result, SITA’s analysts became more productive and accurate, shared actionable intelligence with partners, and Recorded Future directly supported detection and investigation of incidents — including an ICAO attack, credential compromise at an airline customer, a frequent-flyer breach, and initial alerting/monitoring of Operation Cleaver — reducing third-party risk and improving overall security posture.

SITA

Dave Ockwell-Jenner

Senior Security Architect