Hong Kong, Jan. 2 -- More than 90% of China's airports and airlines will implement large scale cyber security programs in the next three years, reported SITA vice president and general manager East Asia, May Zhou, in a recent briefing paper.
Announced in Bejing, the SITA report said that in 2018 airlines will have spent 7% of their IT budget on cybersecurity and airports will have invested 18% of their information technology expenditure on enhanced cyber defences.
The recent SITA Air Transport IT Insight study analysed nine areas of cybersecurity to measure rates of cyber defence implementation. It reported that China's airports and airlines are ahead of their peers elsewhere in the world in detecting and defending cyber attacks.
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