Hudson Analytics Cyber Resilience

Improving Cyber Resilience Through Training - A Call to Action

By Chronis Kapalidis HudsonCyber

As of October 2020, 59 percent of the world’s population – that’s almost 4.66 billion people – used the Internet to access information or communicate, actively selling goods and services, exchanging all forms of data and connecting with friends, family, business connections and communities of shared interest.

How do these 4.66 billion people with different education levels and experience, from different cultures, speaking diverse languages, residing in different countries, and perceiving the world through their own values, function securely? More specifically, how do maritime transportation organizations function securely within such a global community? One of the fundamental steps a maritime organization should take is to initiate and sustain a cyber-aware culture.

According to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity Cyber Security Culture in Organizations the “concept of cybersecurity culture refers to the knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, norms and values of people regarding cybersecurity and how they manifest themselves in people’s behavior with information technologies”. Maritime transportation organizations face a serious challenge in aligning these factors among staff, which may be spread across regions or even around the globe. Creating an organization-wide cyber-aware culture requires, first and foremost, a basic understanding of existing threats, system vulnerabilities, and the potential consequences of a cyber breach. Achieving such awareness requires appropriate cybersecurity awareness training among all staff.

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