Crowley highlights how important is to educate employees in order to increase cyber threat awareness, as technology itself can protect company’s systems partly. Recent cyber-attack within Maersk IT systems have proved that existing protection tools are not enough because times and cyber crimes are changing, Crowley’s Amiee Cords, director, technology, and Maria Hope, manager, technology note.
Nowadays, there are many tools to fight against cyber threats such as Software that identifies a virus’ behavior rather than profile, stopping it before it gathers information or does damage;Tools that allow employees to access only safe or approved websites from company-owned computers, rather than try to identify and block all risky destinations; and Systems that use biometric assets, such as a fingerprints, to protect sensitive data.
However, risk still exists especially if there is not knowledge in identifying possible risks.
“Risk still exists if an employee can’t identify a phishing email and doesn’t know how to quarantine it. Because of this, security awareness and education is one of Crowley’s core strategies for defending against cyber-security incidents’’ Crowley said.
As the cyber world continues to evolve, Crowley hopes that the entire maritime industry embraces increased awareness, makes employee education a priority and utilizes strong virus-prevention technologies so that no one will experience cybercrimes in the future.
