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Cyber Security in Maritime Industries

   

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Running head: CYBER SECURITY IN MARITIME INDUSTRIESCyber Security in Maritime IndustriesName of Student-Name of University-Author’s Note-

CYBER SECURITY IN MARITIME INDUSTRIES1IntroductionMost of the world trade is carried via shipping industry. The international shippingindustry is one of the main industry for world trade. About 90 % of the trade over the world isdone via shipping industry (Lee 2017). The shipping industry is turning itself to technology tomake improvise safety, manages the cargos effectively, and reduce the cost of shipping.Companies mostly have inherited issues that are related with technology, which is estimated tobe $400 billion. It is estimated that the vulnerabilities with the technologies in the companies willrise more in the near future. The case study that is involved in this report is the Cyprus Shipping Chamber that hasrecognized the increasing threat in its company related to cyber threat(Maritimecyprus.files.wordpress.com, 2018). The company has increased the concern about thecyber security and the protection that is to be given to its ships for creating awareness among itsmembers as well as provide guidance to all its members. The Cyprus Shipping Chamber hasmore than 100 ships as well as operates many other ships including container ships, bulkers, andtankers (Jensen 2015). The company has more than 3,000 employees scattered along sevenoffices all over world. Along with the owner, the company has technical operator as well ascrewing services. The company is recently undergoing a transition change from communicationservices of Fleet Broadband to higher broadband VSAT system. The VSAT is an open internetsituation that drive the Cyprus Company to become more vigilance and involve a program ofCyber security in the company. This report details the IT environment of cyber shipping relatedto Cyprus Shipping Chamber. The risks, threats, and the measures that are taken to mitigate therisk of cyber shipping is discussed in this report in detailed.

CYBER SECURITY IN MARITIME INDUSTRIES2IT Environment related to Cyber ShippingCyber threat in the shipping area is one of the most serious issue that the sector is facing.There are security challenges that the maritime industry is facing with the present technologyadvancement. The shipping industry needs to protect themselves from the threats that comes tothem and also implement security enforcement to mitigate the risks (Qamar et al. 2017). Theshipping industry also implements guidelines for supporting the operations of cyber system. Theguideline are to be followed by a shipping company if there is a Cyber incident. The approaches that Cyprus Shipping Chamber deals with addresses the informationtechnology and system for industry specific operational technology. The company provides arange of services as well as solutions for the information technology (Robertson et al. 2016). TheIT environment that is linked with the Cyber Shipping includes the following.The practice that Cyprus Shipping Chamber follows for the information technology is thecyber security resilience management for all its shipping operations. To guide the owners, themanagers, and the operators on the ships, resilience management is used for enhancing the assetsof cyber security. Cyber security assessment is another IT Environment that is linked with the CyprusShipping Chamber (Loukas 2015). The interdisciplinary teams that are engaged with the onshorepersonnel and the crews offshore basically identifies as well as addresses the risks of cybersecurity through different assessment levels. The assessment levels starts from a high levelassessment such as via App, to a detailed assessment that is included in the business risks. There is also Cyber Security Enhancement related with the IT environment of shippingindustry. The cyber security enhancement will helps to close the gaps in cyber security that is

CYBER SECURITY IN MARITIME INDUSTRIES3basically based on the systematic assessment to support the development as well as improvementof plans, human factors, procedure management, and looking at the systems. There is also penetration testing that the Cyprus Shipping Chamber involves in the ITenvironment of its technological shipping operations. Penetration testing means testingrobustness of the barriers that is important for ensuring the assets and securing the assets of thecompany. The penetration testing offers more comprehensive as well as effective validation inthe procedures and systems. Verifying the new systems that are built within the ships or the branches is also a part ofInformation Environment (Carr 2017). The company involves verification of the requirements ofcyber security by a third party and then issues a compliance letter. The verification of theoperations that are carried out on the ships are also verified by the security official that are onboard. Proper training is provided to all the member of the ship onshore and offshore related tothe cyber security (Tam and Jones 2018). The members should know about the technical issuesas well as hacking of the systems. The Cyprus Shipping Chamber organizes training lessons fortheir crews covering all the factors of technical issues and hacking issues and how to mitigatethem at the initial stage. The main Information Technology environment that is linked with the cyber security ofthe Cyprus Shipping Chamber is penetration of third party and the vulnerability testing that areimportant to include in a business process and this is considered to be the best practice in acompany (Bolat, Yüksel and Uygur 2016). The company also uses some prudent providers forgetting a balanced assessment. This is because the assessment generally varies from one provider

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