Polish Airports / Polskie Porty Lotnicze S.A. (PPL)
Strategic: very high maturity contact, national critical infrastructure role, Chopin modernization and CPK/PortPolska transition agenda.
Target lead / route-in
Łukasz Chaberski, President of the Board; Adam Sanocki, Board Member and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer; Małgorzata Bjorum, CISO contact mentioned.
Best opening thesis
Position Airbus Protect as a European aviation-specialist resilience partner that can connect cyber, safety, operations, sustainability and regulation into one practical executive roadmap.
Suggested first offer
Airport-group cyber-safety governance benchmark across PPL/Chopin/CPK interfaces; focus on safety-impacting information security.
Contact people / public profile photos
Photos are from public official/media/profile pages where a reliable embeddable image was found. For some operational contacts, only profile pages were found, not a reusable public image.
1. Why this prospect matters now
- PPL management page lists Łukasz Chaberski as CEO and describes his civil aviation leadership background.
- Public interviews stress PPL’s active—not passive—role in CPK/PortPolska, including operational know-how, quality standards and co-management ambitions.
- Chopin Airport modernization is framed as a bridge to CPK while maintaining capacity and quality.
- Public 2026 commentary frames the year between geopolitical war context and climate neutrality, signalling resilience and sustainability pressure.
2. Likely business / risk triggers
- National-airport transition requires consistent cyber, safety, quality and operational standards across old and future infrastructure.
- High maturity CISO organisation may need aviation-specific independent benchmarking rather than generic cyber consulting.
- CPK/PortPolska introduces major programme, supply-chain and sovereignty risks.
3. Airbus Protect service proposals
| Proposal | Why it fits | Commercial shape |
|---|---|---|
| Airport-group cyber-safety governance benchmark across PPL/Chopin/CPK interfaces; focus on safety-impacting information security. | Airport-group cyber-safety governance benchmark across PPL/Chopin/CPK interfaces; focus on safety-impacting information security. | Start with a 2–6 week diagnostic/workshop, then convert to roadmap, implementation support, managed service or periodic assurance. |
| Supply-chain security audit package for CPK-critical suppliers, IT/OT integrators and operational technology vendors. | Supply-chain security audit package for CPK-critical suppliers, IT/OT integrators and operational technology vendors. | Start with a 2–6 week diagnostic/workshop, then convert to roadmap, implementation support, managed service or periodic assurance. |
| Part‑IS and NIS2 alignment workshop | Part‑IS and NIS2 alignment workshop: clarify overlap, evidence model and executive risk reporting. | Start with a 2–6 week diagnostic/workshop, then convert to roadmap, implementation support, managed service or periodic assurance. |
| Crisis exercise for national airport disruption | Crisis exercise for national airport disruption: cyberattack, geopolitical event, energy outage, airport transfer/transition scenario. | Start with a 2–6 week diagnostic/workshop, then convert to roadmap, implementation support, managed service or periodic assurance. |
4. Why Airbus Protect is the right partner
Airbus Protect combines aviation-domain safety know-how, cybersecurity, sustainability and resilience services. Official pages position Airbus Protect as supporting aviation across IT/OT convergence, ground operations, Part‑IS, product/system security, MDR/SOC, offensive security, business continuity and sustainable aviation transition.
Relevant Airbus Protect capabilities
- Part‑IS gap analysis, ca‑ISMS design, pre-audit and training
- SOC/MDR for airport critical infrastructure with darknet/digital-risk monitoring and incident hotline
- OT/industrial cybersecurity for baggage, apron, energy, building-management and security-screening environments
- Red-team/purple-team exercises tailored to airport scenarios
- BCP/crisis tabletop exercises including cyber, drone, severe weather and supplier outage scenarios
- Hydrogen/SAF/electrification safety, risk assessment and permitting support
- Sustainability governance, climate resilience and infrastructure risk analysis
5. Conversation guide for Prague
Opening
“We help aviation organisations make innovation and sustainability transformation resilient by design — not only compliant, but operationally robust.”
Questions
- Given your maturity, where would an external aviation-specialist benchmark create value for the Board?
- Can Airbus Protect help create a common cyber-safety assurance model for Chopin modernization and CPK transition?
- Which supplier categories are most critical for cyber/operational resilience in the CPK roadmap?
Next step to propose
Offer a short executive workshop after ACI: map current initiatives, identify 3–5 cyber/safety/sustainability risk hotspots, and define a concrete 90‑day support roadmap.
6. Internal pursuit notes
Stakeholder hypothesis
CEO/COO cares about resilience, passenger experience, regulatory trust, sustainability and reputation. CISO/CIO cares about risk visibility, third-party exposure, evidence, incident response and architecture. Operations/security/safety care about continuity and practical procedures.
Qualification checklist
- Is there an active Part‑IS/NIS2 programme and who owns it?
- Which OT domains are monitored by SOC today?
- How are third-party airport service providers assessed?
- What critical transformation project needs independent assurance in 2026?
- Is there appetite for a tabletop exercise with executive participation?
Sources used
Prepared from public web sources available on 22 June 2026 plus the prospect/context email supplied by Lukas Weber. Treat as an engagement briefing, not as confidential customer intelligence.