It is a top down initiative that needs to happen in a more meaningful way. It’s adjacent in a similar way to the issue of air traffic controllers. Talent shortage, old equipment, old hats, burn out and the like.
It needs some real backing and effort to make it happen.
Top down regulation drives the systematic change, just like it did with the banking sector.
> It is a top down initiative that needs to happen in a more meaningful way. It’s adjacent in a similar way to the issue of air traffic controllers. Talent shortage, old equipment, old hats, burn out and the like.
I'm not sure how this analogy works. What's the ATC equivalent to leaving default passwords on critical infrastructure?
Banking is resourced well enough to absorb that regulation and stand up a compliance team. I bring up ATC because of the consequence. Default passwords are a symptom, not the failure mode.
ATC is already federal, with the FAA running that. 20 years of regulation has not fixed the problems that still plague that industry: outdated equipment, short-staffed, a small niche talent and training pipeline, and people dying as a consequence of those systemic problems. That's even closer to my point. Making something regulated doesn't change the inherent problems inside the industry.