Originally Posted by
unitedabx
Four years ago a university pal of mine who runs his own UK based IT company made a bid to take over the CX IT security. He had managed the IT security passes at the London 2012 Olympics. In his presentation at CX City he told the management attending that the CX sytems were "archaic" and open to hacking and extortion. "Prove it" came the challenge and they broke the meeting for lunch. In the afternoon session my pal continued his presentation and presented printed first class tickets to every manager present for a round trip to JFK the cost deducted from each and evey managers company credit card. He then went on to show them that the bookings were already in the CX system and there was absolutely no record of who/when or how the bookings were made.
He didn't get the contract.
He didn't get the contract, no doubt because it was deemed to be too expensive. Cathay view IT security just like training: Its a cost not an investment. But once it all goes badly wrong in either case, there will be unlimited funds to fix it pronto-for a short time of course.
United, if your story is true and I accept that is is, surely your friend would have kept or created proof of such a shocking example and could now forward that to ALL concerned including, even as a "courtesy", the Swire Buffoons and Cathay clowns responsible?