Cybersecurity and other risks for seaports: How protected is 80% of global trade? 👨🏻‍💻🏗️🚢 🌊😈

A group of academic maritime security researchers from John Moores University (Liverpool, UK), in their paper, review more than 20 years of work on the security, safety, and resilience of seaports.

Authors analyzed 141 port disruptions across 74 ports worldwide using AIS (Automatic Identification System) ship-tracking data and shared insights on famous disasters and attacks on seaports, such as the “triple hit” of disasters in Japan in 2011 and the NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

The key takeaways for me are: cyber threats are already major risks because ports are becoming highly digitalized. But they are analyzed much less than the impacts of natural disasters and physical disruptions.

Looking for your next step in a cybersecurity career? This may be an interesting field to explore. Enjoy the read and stay safe!

More details:

Resilience analysis of seaports: a critical review of development and research directions [PDF]: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/503711/1/Resilience_analysis_of_seaports_a_critical_review_of_development_and_research_directions.pdf