Sabre Corporation has unveiled its latest whitepaper: The Secure AI Advantage: Governance and Trust in Travel Technology.
This new report invites the travel industry to rethink trust in an era shaped by autonomous intelligence, given how travel is entering an era defined by intelligent automation that acts, decides, and adapts across one of the world’s most interconnected ecosystems.
As agentic AI moves from concept to commercial reality, Sabre argues the industry is facing an inflection point: the systems capable of transforming travel are the same systems that demand a reimagined approach to security.
As such, the paper offers a candid, insider look at how Sabre is engineering that future, one where autonomy accelerates innovation and strengthens trust.
As Sabre’s chief information security officer Scott Moser explains: “Autonomy without trust is unusable; autonomy with trust is transformational. As AI begins acting on behalf of travelers and suppliers, trust can’t be an afterthought. It has to be built into the data, the identity, and the verification of every action the system takes. We anticipate this being a requisite for partners when engaging with AI solutions, and we are well-prepared for it today.”
With that in mind, The Secure AI Advantage reinforces Sabre’s commitment to lead with transparency, set a higher bar for responsible AI, and help partners embrace the future of travel with confidence rather than caution.
A trust framework for the autonomous era
Based on conversations with top security experts across the travel ecosystem and beyond, the whitepaper challenges the industry to adopt a mindset shift: travel can only unlock AI’s full potential if trust is designed, demonstrated, and durable.
Sabre outlines how that philosophy now anchors its technology strategy, from the way the company curates and protects its global Travel Data Cloud, to how agent identities are authenticated, to how every AI-driven action is monitored and verifiable.
Among the key points highlighted in the report are:
- Data must be curated, protected, and privacy-preserved at scale.
- Autonomous systems require identity that is continuous, not static.
- Resilience depends on real-time observability, not periodic review.
- Governance must be proactive, transparent, and provable.
These principles reflect Sabre’s long‑standing belief that trust is not a feature, it’s a core tenet of infrastructure.
Delving into the Sabre approach
The whitepaper opens the curtain on Sabre’s own transformation, revealing how its multiyear collaboration with Google Cloud has modernized the company’s infrastructure and enabled enterprise-grade AI with embedded security from the start.
Through the SabreMosaic platform, the Sabre IQ AI Layer, and the dedicated IQ Assurance Layer, Sabre offers customers not just powerful AI but AI with guardrails, lineage, and accountability engineered in.
Sabre’s chief information officer Joe DiFonzo puts it as: “Moving tens of thousands of servers and over 50 petabytes of data to the cloud wasn’t just a modernisation milestone. It was the foundation for building AI systems that can be both autonomous and safe at scale.”
Based on its own security roadmap, Sabre concludes the whitepaper with five tips for success for other companies looking to bolster security for the agentic era, and offers the industry the opportunity to join its global Agentic U roadshow, a program designed to empower travel suppliers and agencies and prepare them for the evolution of AI in travel.
