The threats business aviation flight departments face may take many forms, ranging from physical, to financial, to digital. Exploring how aware they are of these potential hazards, and what they can do to help mitigate them was the goal of NBAA’s second annual security conference, held in May in Dallas. As the presenters explained, harm to a company’s assets or reputation can come from simply leaving a sensitive document on a hotel check-in desk, to an overheard conversation in a bar, to an intruder getting into a hangar and damaging an aircraft, to a flight crew and passengers put in peril from an unexpected geopolitical event. One of the underlying themes of the conference is that security is everyone’s responsibility, from the scheduler who selects the hotels, to the crewmember or passenger who is aware of possible danger, to the security coordinator who designs and implements the security plan at the home base, everyone must buy in to the program for it to have the best chance of preventing problems.
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