The exec explained that Six Flags, which owns 29 parks in the U.S. and Mexico, is in the middle of a major IT restructuring, which involves “segmenting” different parts of the business for security purposes.
“For example,” he said, “if we bring Kodak in to sell photos to our customers, they are on their segment and it can’t be hacked into.”
Encryption was also high on the agenda during the panel debate, prompted by the apparent ambivalence of many IT managers toward the technology. Just over a quarter of respondents confirmed that they encrypt laptop data, although only 8 percent lock down data on all devices, such as USB drives.
The biggest gripe from the panelists concerned the lack of security for portable media such as USB drives, which is something of an ongoing source of frustration for many IT managers.
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