This week the Coast Guard added a note to their Cyber News
web page about a cybersecurity webinar “specifically tailored to maritime
facility and vessel owners and operators”.
The Webinar
Following the link on the page leads to another Coast Guard
page providing a summary of the webinar. It lists:
• Overview of the basics of
maritime information technology and operational technology
• Summary of trends in the maritime
industry
• Review of the current threat
environment and recent cyber events
• Discussion of common real-world
vulnerabilities
• Overview of the basics of
cybersecurity
• Discussion of available resources
to help you reduce your cybersecurity risk
• Practical guidance on how to build and enhance your
cybersecurity program.
Following an additional link
you come to a recorded version of a May 21st, 2018 webinar presented
by the ABS Group. Registration is
required to view this webinar.
Other Links
The CG summary page provides links to two other information
sources. The first is an ABS
Group document entitled “Choosing Cybersecurity Standards & Best
Practices for Vessel & Maritime Facility Owner/Operators”. That document
includes some interesting decision-trees for selecting cybersecurity standards
for operational control systems. They were designed for maritime systems, but
have some application to industrial control systems in general.
The second link is to a MP4
version of the webinar described above, but that is dated May 16th,
2018. No registration is required to view this version.
Commentary
I was a little disappointed in the wording of the initial
notice on the CG Cyber News page. It seemed to indicate that this webinar would
be held sometime in the future. This is not a major issue, the information
provided in the webinar is still useful, but it is always better to ‘attend’
one of these webinars ‘live’ since provisions are made for asking questions. Those
provisions do not apply to the recorded version. Advanced notice of this webinar
would have been helpful.
One other point about the CG notice. There is nothing in the
news item or summary page indicating that this webinar was conducted by ABS
Group. Until I got to the actual webinar (in both versions) I was under the
impression that this was a Coast Guard webinar. Now that could still be true if
ABS Group produced this under contract for the CG, but this issue really could
have been clarified better.
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