Is your vessel prone to cyber attacks? How strong is your crew agents in Philippines trained their crew to mitigate the risk of cyber attack? Will your cyber risk management come up with countermeasure and defensive action against cyber attack?
Identifying The Threats
Unauthorized access can be done, however, with malware carried onto the vessel by either plugging external device knowingly or unknowingly. It is advisable to train the crew about cyber security and its risk and counteractive measure or hire crew from a crew manning agency who provides better crew training service periodically.
To keep the cyber security intact, make compulsory zero tolerance on unusual act of plugging odd device in the vessel and enforce seafarer to bring their own device themselves.
Mitigate The Threat
Cyber attack takes place every week, from data breach to potential damage of vessel and injuries to seafarer caused because of lack of knowledge about cyber security. Fraudulent attempt like phishing to obtain sensitive information is a major threat to safety of the data and other important information. Personnel hired to maintain account details are most likely to vulnerable to this attack.