Jeppesen ForeFlight builds the flight-planning and operational software behind more than 60 million flights a year - spanning commercial, business, military, and general aviation. The product suite handles everything from preflight navigation data to in-flight monitoring and post-flight optimization, which means the attack surface is both vast and safety-critical: compromised aeronautical data or a disrupted software pipeline doesn't just create a business risk, it puts aircraft in the air at stake.
The company's technical stack sits at the intersection of aviation software, aeronautical data processing, and AI-enabled decision support. That demands engineering rigor on data integrity, real-time system reliability, and secure delivery pipelines across a global customer base. Security teams here aren't protecting a SaaS dashboard - they're defending operational infrastructure that pilots, dispatchers, and flight crews depend on to make split-second decisions in real time.
Working across domains from embedded avionics data feeds to cloud-based flight management tools, the security posture has to account for legacy protocol constraints, stringent aviation regulatory frameworks, and the reality that downtime or tampering carries consequences measured in human lives rather than lost revenue. The role of security is fundamental to the product's credibility and operational trust.
