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EL AL launches new in-flight Wi-Fi system, powered by Viasat
EL AL Israel Airlines has announced it has officially launched its new fast, reliable commercial in-flight Wi-Fi service, powered by global communications company, Viasat.
EL AL was Viasat’ s European launch customer. Since first announcing their relationship, both companies undertook broad market studies focused on in-flight Wi-Fi passenger demand, engagement and service offerings, including a customer beta phase to determine Internet package types. EL AL also began to re-energise its fleet,
taking on new Boeing 787 Dreamliners, a recent addition to Viasat’ s certified platforms. Fifteen EL AL aircraft have been outfitted with Viasat’ s latest equipment, providing high-speed connectivity to EL AL’ s mix of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, Boeing 737-900 aircraft and Boeing 737-800 planes. By mid-2020, EL AL expects to have the majority of its fleet connected with the Viasat service.
Recently, EL AL held its‘ inaugural high-speed Wi-Fi service flight’, which flew from Tel Aviv to Paris on one of its new Dreamliner aircraft. There were 128 devices connected, many that were streaming movies, videos, music and even the World Cup semi-final.
More than half of the passengers were filming and streaming videos, posting content to multiple social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
“ Israeli passengers want to keep up to date and connected in realtime even when in the air,” said Nimrod Borovitz, Director, Strategy and Business Development at EL AL Israel Airlines.“ We invested in the most advanced in-flight Wi-Fi product from Viasat so we could best respond to our customers’ interests. EL AL chose Viasat’ s inflight Wi-Fi system because they had the most advanced product.”
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First cyberdefence exercise for German and Israeli finance institutions
Cyberbit Ltd, a world leading provider of cybersecurity simulation and IT / OT detection and response platforms, and Finanz Informatik GmbH and Co(‘ FI’), the central IT service provider of the German Savings Banks Finance Group, have announced they held their first joint cybersecurity training exercise at Cyberbit headquarters in Raanana, Israel.
Cybersecurity professionals of all levels and professions from leading German and Israeli banks held a five-day joint exercise where they practised defending against a wide variety of the most dangerous cyberattacks threatening financial organisations today. technically. The teams ran simulations of different attack vectors currently looming over the financial institutions around the world.
“ FI is always pushing to stay well ahead of the cybercriminals,” said Lutz Bleyer, Chief Information Security Officer at Finanz Informatik.“ I initiated this joint training to give our team a chance to work together with the excellent infosec professionals in Israel and learn from one another in a realistic setting.”
“ The teams were very impressed with the technical capabilities on both sides,” said Yochai Corem, VP EMEA, Cyberbit.
The teams convened in Israel to train on the Cyberbit Range training and simulation platform. The Cyberbit Range technology can simulate multiple network environments and allows teams to realistically experience different types of advanced multi-stage
cyberattacks and manage the events from start to finish, both operationally and
“ Simulation training is a must-have experience for every financial organisation that wants to keep their teams up-to-date and we are looking forward to hosting more joint trainings with cybersecurity teams from leading European banks.”
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