‘Be Cyber Aware at Sea’ campaign issues every month an informative newsletter as part of its efforts to provide the shipping industry with the necessary services to educate organisations on the cyber threat and help them manage and transfer their risk. This month’s issue of the campaign’s official newsletter ‘Phish & Ships’, which has been kindly sponsored by CSO Alliance Maritime, includes the steps which have been taken to bring cyber protection to the Royal Navy.
Lt Cdr Tim Parker, Cyber and Information Security Professional, highlights that cyber security is an actual problem which is considered to be more social rather than technical due to the perspective of awareness and understanding and the human factor. Considering these, the cyber approach for the Royal Navy has two main strands; user awareness and cyber protection.
‘’The user is the first line of defence and it is essential to deliver an enduring campaign of cyber awareness training, education and messaging to ensure that our users are as fully aware as possible of the ever evolving and ever present cyber threat. It is for this reason that we are proud to support the Be Cyber Aware at Sea campaign and recognise that a common message across the seafaring community is far stronger than an internal campaign.’’ Mr. Parker comments.
For cyber protection, it is important the use of Cyber Essentials baseline to reinforce a foundation of good behaviour and good practise, much of which was already established. The benefits of using Cyber Essentials is that it is an externally validated scheme and because it is effectively a reinforcement of good system administration, it can be implemented anywhere, at any scale and by anyone who is already a trained system administrator. It is appropriate for any size of platform or unit and the principles can be applied to IT and OT, Mr. Parker explained.
5 Easy Ways to Get Yourself Hacked
1. Clicking Malicious Links – beware of emails asking you to click phishy links
2. Torrents – Those free files may be tempting, be careful what you wish for
3. Popups – Dodgy websites can bring all kinds of bad things into your system
4. Scams – You have been chosen to receive a billion dollars. No you haven’t – you are being scammed!
5. Drive-by Downloads – Your security settings may make you a target
The campaign has been created to tackle maritime cyber security issues. Providing guidance and raising awareness of cyber threats and risks across the shipping and offshore sectors. Explore more at www.becyberawareatsea.com
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