Hotels, guest data and the weak point nobody audits: passwords
Every property runs on a steady flow of sensitive data. From the booking to the last folio at checkout, the hotel stores passport details, home addresses, payment information and stay history. Hotel Tech News lays out that reality plainly in its piece on password attacks, and the angle is worth a revenue manager's coffee break.
The weak spot is rarely the big PMS vendor. It is the front desk sharing one login across three shifts, the restaurant POS nobody rotated, the extranet credentials reused on a personal email. Attackers know it. Credential stuffing against hospitality accounts is cheap and quiet.
My take: treat guest data like inventory. Rotate access per shift, turn on MFA on every extranet and PMS admin account, and cut shared logins before your next audit. Boring, yes. Also the cheapest insurance a hotel can buy this quarter.
Quick questions
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