The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has issued MSC-FAL.1-Circ.3-Rev.2 Guidelines on maritime cyber risk management to safeguard shipping from current and emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities. The guidelines provide high-level recommendations on maritime cyber risk management and include functional elements that support effective cyber risk management.

 

These recommendations can be incorporated into existing risk management processes and are complementary to the safety and security management practices already established by IMO.

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The guidelines define cyber risk management as the process of identifying, analyzing, assessing, and communicating a cyber-related risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or mitigating it to an acceptable level, considering costs and benefits of actions taken to stakeholders. 

 

The overall goal is to support safe and secure shipping, which is operationally resilient to cyber risks. In addition, the Maritime Safety Committee has adopted Resolution MSC.428 (98) - Maritime Cyber Risk Management in Safety Management Systems. The resolution encourages administrations to ensure that cyber risks are appropriately addressed in existing safety management systems (as defined in the ISM Code) no later than the first annual verification of the company’s Document of Compliance after 1 January 2021.

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In this regard, we aim to stop the convulation of information, and easily deliver set solutions to our clients bringing them into compliance by providing a beacon of clear and, practical, self sustaining deliverable IT solutions.