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Join Shoreline Maritime Answers as we explore the dark side of life at sea, from cyber attacks and drug smuggling to geopolitical risk and migration. On each episode we’ll deep dive into the issues facing shipowners and crew at sea, with specialists in cyber, risk and humanitarian issues.
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Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
The depth of analytical insight and provision of ‘actionable intelligence' in the maritime domain has evolved considerably over the last few years. This has been made possible by the availability and accessibility of data sources and the involvement of data scientists and machine learning engineers to make sense of it. In this episode of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk Podcast, Shoreline consultant Nick Maddalena is joined by Brendan Moore and Eric Anderson from Synmax, a satellite data analytics company based in Houston and London. We discuss the dramatic evolution of the commercial satellite industry, how those changes have delivered deep insights into shipping activity and the maritime domain as a whole.
- Brendan Moore has spent almost 18 years working within the Intelligence field, combatting organised crime for the UK government across drugs importation, firearms and cyber. He has taken this expertise in intelligence and tackling criminality into SynMax as CEO.
- Eric Anderson is Synmax’s Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Synmax, Eric worked in the energy trading industry for 10 years, most recently as a Quantitative Analyst developing models used for commodities trading. At Synmax he leads a highly skilled team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers and GIS Engineers from a diverse set of industry backgrounds including financial trading, energy and earth observation.
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Episode 16 - The Seafarer’s Happiness Index - What can it tell us?
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Every Quarter, the Mission to Seafarers asks crew serving on vessels around the globe how they feel about their lives at sea. Covering their experiences onboard and the things that matter to them, from connectivity to wages. workload to welfare, training, shore leave to health, diet and interactions onboard. The Seafarers Happiness Index gives insight into the way those at sea feel, and the reasons why. It is a vital tool for the industry to know its people, to hear their opinions and what their impacts are on them and also the wider risks faced by shipping. You can find out more at happyatsea.org
In this episode, Shoreline speaks with Steve about his index and how it correlates with ship safety and optimal efficiency. We discuss what makes seafarers happy and look to the future of always on connectivity and what that might mean from a risk management perspective.
Lest we not forget the disastrous grounding of the MV Wakashio on the Mauritian coral reef in 2020, due to an error in navigation caused when going off track in search of better cell phone coverage, a case like this underlines the importance of managing the issue of shipboard connectivity. But what are the unintended consequences of this communications prerequisite for a happy shipboard life, and how can an owner and operator manage this new risk to shipboard safety.
Speaker: Steven Jones
Steven spent a decade working at sea as navigation officer, and has subsequently worked ashore across the maritime industry, within shipping companies, Government, insurers, publishers and professional bodies. He has also developed solutions for maritime issues, including the Seafarer Happiness Index with The Mission to Seafarers. Steven is Past President of Propeller Club Liverpool, an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He holds an MA in International Relations and MSc in Marketing, Communications and Public Relations.
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Episode 15 - Why you need a threat led approach to maritime cyber risk
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Introduction: In this episode, we focus on the intersection of geopolitical, socioeconomic, and cyber risk. We ask leading risk experts, how the intersectionality of these three macro risk factors impacts the safe operation of ships at sea today?
We discuss the motivations behind cyber-attacks, in particular nation state espionage and ransomware attacks? And; finally, we gain a better understanding of what is meant by a threat informed cyber risk management strategy and question what this looks like in practice for maritime risk managers.
Speakers:
Tom Scriven is a Strategic Consultant at Mandiant based in the UK, specialising in Security Operations and Threat Intelligence advisory services. His first role in IT security was for the Royal Navy as a Communications Technician, before moving to support key UK government departments in security operations. He has significant experience as a trusted advisor to sensitive areas of government, and has consulted for major corporate entities, including in critical national infrastructure sectors, to undertake major cyber security assessments and implement complex cyber security transformation programmes. Tom has worked with large multinational companies to assess their security programmes, providing prioritised recommendations and roadmaps to enhance security posture and effectiveness.
Dr Jamie Collier is a Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Mandiant. He is also active within academia as an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Before joining Mandiant, he was the Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead at Digital Shadows and completed a PhD in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. Jamie was previously based at MIT as a Cyber Security Fulbright Scholar and has experience working with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Oxford Analytica, and PwC India.
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Recently, Shoreline CEO Captain Thomas Brown has noted a spate of MARPOL violation cases in the US and pondered whether much has changed in the intervening 25 years since he was last at sea?
In this podcast we will attempt to answer this question with the expert assistance of George Chalos, founding partner of the US maritime the law firm CHALOS & Co. George will hopefully bring us up to date with the ongoing issues as they relate to MARPOL violations in the US.
George has spent a lifetime defending the interests of shipowners and seafarers alike when caught up in MARPOL prosecutions state side. Most investigations and when warranted, subsequent prosecutions, often arise from irregularities in written entries in the oil record book and/or whistleblower reports.
Although not squarely within Shoreline’s remit as an OPA90 COFR guarantor, we do recognize the connection this difficult subject has with a myriad of important issues including the environment, the law and the human cost of these often difficult and damaging cases.
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
In the first year that the Bank of England has agreed to include a maritime realistic disaster scenario into its general insurance stress test, the University of Plymouth’s Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group was asked to propose an appropriate maritime cyber stress test.
The stress test proposed concerns threat actors gaining access to the bridge systems of commercial seagoing vessels and compromising the control systems.
The intrusion goes undetected for weeks until the threat actor locks the rudder and propulsion system of a container ship causing it to hit a quay in the port of Singapore. A day later, the threat actor causes another container ship to hit a quay and cranes in the port of Los Angeles.
Physical damage is caused to the quay and cranes, there is some loss of cargo and some hull damage. The threat actor threatens further accidents unless a US$50 million ransom is paid by each of the top five cargo shipping companies (as measured by twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) capacity).
As a precautionary measure, many ships stop their journeys and all container port authorities close their ports until the bridge systems of impacted ships are checked, disrupting the maritime supply chain accounting for 90% of world trade in goods.
It takes three days to determine which elements of the bridge system have been compromised and two more days to develop a solution.
The motivation of the threat attacker is more political than financial with the ransom demand adding to the confusion.
Our speaker today is Professor Kevin Jones, who, as a Director of the Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group, played an integral part in the submission of this RDS.
The scenario was conceived in line with the University’s work as part of the €7 million Cyber-MAR project, which aims to develop greater awareness of the cyber threats facing the global shipping fleet and the most effective ways of countering them.
It was then demoed in the Cyber-SHIP Lab, a unique, hardware-based maritime cyber security research and development platform supported by funding from Research England and several industry partners.
Speaker - Professor Kevin Jones
Kevin is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Plymouth. As a Director of the Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group, Kevin is currently investigating some of the most pressing technological threats posed to global shipping at all levels from theory through to practice. Under Kevin’s leadership the group has published widely on the security challenges facing the maritime sector, developed partnerships with businesses and in 2018 was the only UK representative at the US Coast Guard panels on Maritime Cyber Security. Finally, Kevin is playing an integral part in the recently formed Cyber-MAR network, a €7million European network which aims to enhance cyber preparedness across the maritime sector.
Monday May 09, 2022
Episode 12 - Marine Cyber - The innocent bystander risk
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
Bitesize Risk Podcast
Welcome to this the 12th episode, in the series of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk podcasts. Today, your host Captain Thomas Brown has the pleasure of speaking with Antonio “Johnny” Martinelli. Johnny came to our attention when he appeared in this year’s Maritime Cyber Conference, ‘Hack the Port’ in Florida. Johnny is currently the Director of Cybersecurity Training with the Grimm Security Engineering group but is most well-known for his work on the American TSA Master Key leaks between 2014 and 2018.
Today we will discuss remote vessel access, the potential consequences of a failure to detect malware embedded within shipboard IT and OT systems and the risk of virus migration from ship to shore and the possible consequences thereof.
Speaker Bio
Antonio “Johnny” Martinelli is a predominant personality in the Information Security community, most well-known for his work on the American TSA Master Key leaks between 2014 and 2018 and the Venmo public feed scraping exposures in 2018. Currently the Director of Cybersecurity Training with the Grimm Security Engineering group, he has formerly partnered with Australian firm 'Kasada' to defend against the automated abuse of web infrastructure and was the lead consultant on Uptake, Inc's Industrial Cybersecurity Platform. Prior to this, he spent many years in the field as a penetration tester, focusing heavily on both IT and physical security of financial and medical facilities, Security Engineer for a global Fortune 500 retail corporation, and Mainframe auditor and Systems Engineer for several IT asset recovery firms.
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
In this bitsize episode Shoreline discusses a malware at sea attack with Cyber Owl’s CEO – Daniel Ng.
Cyber Owl provides maritime cyber security monitoring services, in this episode, we hear how Cyber Owl detected a malware attack on a number of vessels within a shipowner’s fleet whilst at sea.
Daniel walks us through the process of detection, confinement and neutralization of the malicious code embedded within shipboard IT/OT systems.
This type of attack can and does happen to ships at sea, find out how to deal with this modern day risk by listening to the experts.
9 minute listen.
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Episode 10 is brought to you by myself Captain Thomas Brown who will be in conversation with Max Bobys. Max leads Hudson Cyber, a division of HudsonAnalytix.
Hudson are a company Shoreline has a long relationship with, dating back to the early days of OPA 90 and the requirement for QI and OSRO services.
In more recent times Shoreline has welcomed Max’s input when developing Shoreline’s insurance risk transfer solutions namely ICCI and MCI.
Max is hugely experience in the sphere of cybersecurity acting in an advisory capacity to many national in international agencies whilst also authoring many publications on the subject.
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Episode 9 - Recent developments in the Cyber Insurance Market
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
In this episode, we check in with AcrisureRe's Cyber Practice Leader Tom Quy.
Tom provides a thorough explanation of the current cyber insurance market dynamics, how the cyber threat is evolving and what his means for buyers of maritime cyber insurance.
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Host: Captain Thomas Brown CEO Shoreline
Guest: Anthony Hess CEO Asceris
Intel’s legendary co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove put it best when he said,
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid will survive.”
When a shipping company measures success by its historical ability to avoid a cyber-attack, it becomes complacent and ever more prone to attack.
Only by being paranoid and meticulous in its continual cyber risk assessment, from which flows the implementation of its cyber security and risk transfer strategies will a company become more cyber resilient, thereby surviving and prospering in this internet age.
In Episode 8 of Shoreline’s series of Maritime Risk Podcasts, Shoreline’s CEO Captain Thomas Brown speaks to Anthony Hess, the CEO and co-founder of cyber response company Asceris, to address the issues of cyber claims quantification and analysis.
When you become the victim of a successful cyber-attack what does that look like, what are the likely financial losses your company may have to assume and how do you recover and get back to business?
We also discuss the value of Maritime Cyber Insurance as an integral part of your company’s overall cyber risk management strategy and discuss the ancillary benefits of the insurance cover that go beyond financial risk transfer.
If you are struggling to understand and quantify the size of your cyber risk exposure we can highly recommend listening to this very insightful discussion to hear the thoughts of a cyber risk professional who has responded to 100’s if not 1,000’s of cyber-attacks both large and small.