Aviation
Aviation Exposure Runs From Booking Page to Ground Handler.
Airlines, airports and maintenance organizations run customer systems that can’t go dark, surrounded by partners with access to passenger and operational data. The Deepinfo Platform watches your surface, the domains that trade on your name, leaked loyalty and customer logins, and each partner as thoroughly as your own assets.
- Asset discovery: in the back office in the basement, a rack nobody listed: old-vpn.airline.example, not in inventory.
- Continuous scanning: the baggage system, a port open that was shut at the last scan: bags.airline.example, 8443/tcp newly open, high, caught between two scans.
- Risk detection: the flight status display at the gate: status.airline.example, certificate expiring, medium.
- Risk scoring: a server cabinet in the comms room on the airside level, serving the crew portal: crew.airline.example runs Apache httpd 2.4.49: CVE-2021-41773, CVSS 9.8, listed in CISA KEV, critical.
- Cyber Threat Intelligence: in the lounge, a passenger’s infected laptop: loyalty.airline.example login, in an infostealer log.
- Brand Risk Protection: on the forecourt, a refund kiosk that is not yours: air1ine-refund.example, lookalike · fuzzy_contains.
- Third-Party Risk Management: at the aircraft, the ground handler’s belt loader and the maintenance stand, drawn dashed because they are not yours: ground-handler.example, graded C; mro-partner.example, graded B, each linked to airline.example.
Where Aviation Gets Exposed.
Passengers
Customer Journeys
Booking, check-in, refund and loyalty pages are what passengers search for, and what impersonators copy. Peak travel and disruption bring more of them.
Loyalty
Points as Currency
Loyalty balances can be spent or transferred, so loyalty logins are worth stealing. Passwords saved on infected devices end up in infostealer logs.
Partners
Shared Operations
Code-share carriers, ground handlers, maintenance organizations and IT providers touch passenger and operational data. Their breach becomes your incident.
Operations
Little Room for Downtime
Flight status, check-in and airport information systems face the public around the clock. An expired certificate on one of them is an outage passengers notice, and an exposed service is a way in.
Each Partner Is Scanned the Way You Are.
Third-Party Risk Management runs each partner as a portfolio, using the data layers and scoring that External Attack Surface Management applies to you. A loyalty partner’s falling score shows in the next scan, not the next annual review.
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airline.example
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loyalty-partner.example
C→D
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booking-engine.example
A
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ground-handler.example
C
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catering-co.example
B
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mro-partner.example
B
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call-center.example
C
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cdn-provider.example
A
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airport-wifi.example
B
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crm-saas.example
A
A Fake Refund Page Starts as a Registration.
Brand Risk Protection matches newly seen domains against your brand, loyalty program and airport names. A typo, an added word such as “refund” or “checkin”, a lookalike letter from another alphabet: each has a match type.
Each suspicious domain stays under watch across DNS, mail servers, certificate and HTTP, with a risk score and its timeline. Confirmed ones go to Managed Takedown, where Deepinfo’s team files the removal request.
airline
Yours
air1ine-refund.example
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Newly seen
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Matched
fuzzy_contains -
Resolves
dns(on) -
Receives mail
dns_mx(on) -
Serves a certificate
ssl(on) -
Answers on the web
http(on) -
Risk score steps up
Then: Confirmed · to Managed Takedown
| exact · contains | Your name as registered, or with words added |
|---|---|
| fuzzy · fuzzy_contains | Typos and near misses |
| confusable_exact · confusable_contains | Lookalike characters from other alphabets |
| confusable_fuzzy · confusable_fuzzy_contains | Lookalike characters and typos together |
From Refund Scams to Ground Handlers.
Phishing Detection and Prevention
Fake booking, check-in and refund domains caught when they first appear.
Brand Impersonation Protection
Your airline, airport and loyalty brands watched as one program.
Credential Exposure Management
Loyalty, customer and staff logins found in breach data and infostealer logs.
Fraud Prevention
Lookalike domains and leaked logins worked as one fraud queue.
Third-Party Risk Management
Code-share, ground-handling and maintenance partners scored on the scale your surface uses.
Supply Chain Security
The IT and service providers behind your operations, monitored as closely.
Attack Surface Management
Booking, crew and partner-facing systems in one current inventory.
Dark Web Monitoring
Your brands and domains named on forums, markets and leak sites.
Which Frameworks the Platform Maps for Aviation.
Every issue is classified as it is raised, so evidence for a framework is a filter. Aviation-specific rules sit alongside as context.
| PCI DSS 4.0 and 3.2 | Mapped. Booking and ancillary sales that take card payments |
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| OWASP Top 10 (2021) | Mapped. Booking engines, loyalty portals and passenger apps on the web |
| CWE, CAPEC, WASC | Mapped. The weakness behind each finding, for the team that fixes it |
| GDPR | Context only. Covers passenger data in EU operations |
| National aviation rules | Context only. TSA cybersecurity directives and other national rules vary by authority and operation, and are not platform classifications |
Airlines and Airports in the Customer Base.
The Data Is Yours to Use Too
The index under the platform is also sold as data. Teams that build their own tooling query it through the API or take it as bulk feeds, and Internet Insights shows what it sees each day.
Questions About Deepinfo in Aviation
Can the platform find fake booking and refund sites?
Brand Risk Protection finds the domains behind them. It matches newly seen domains against your brand, loyalty and airport names, down to typos and lookalike characters, watches each suspicious one across DNS, mail, certificate and HTTP, and sends confirmed ones to Managed Takedown.
Can the platform find our members’ loyalty logins in leaked data?
Compromised Client Credential Monitoring finds customer logins to your domains in infostealer logs, each tied to the URL and service it opens, so a loyalty login reads differently from a booking or check-in one. Each record moves through tracked states until your team closes it.
How are ground handlers and maintenance providers covered?
Each partner becomes a portfolio in Third-Party Risk Management. The platform discovers its internet-facing assets, scans them layer by layer as it scans yours, and scores them on one shared scale.
Can we catch an expiring certificate before passengers notice?
Yes. Risk Detection raises expiring and expired certificates as issues, and a certificate change on a monitored asset is a notification event of its own.
Is the scanning intrusive?
No. Standard monitoring runs no load tests, no exploit attempts and no authenticated scans. Port scans and web requests reach only what a host already exposes to the internet.
Does the platform see airport operational systems?
Only what answers on the internet. The platform scans domains, subdomains and IP addresses from outside, so an operational interface appears only if it is reachable on a public address, as an open port with the service behind it.
See Your Booking and Partner Surface From Outside.
Book a demo scoped to your brands and a few key partners.