Maritime cybersecurity

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To effectively manage important processes each organization needs to have its own policies and procedures to create framework for any further activities. Business Continuity should be one of the most important areas for each entity and because of this it is necessary to define basis, responsibilities and goals of every future activities on that field. With our experienced team we can provide you with our proven solutions, adjusted to maritime sector and your detailed requirements and expectations.

Each policy is only general document which is a framework for more detailed documents, which can be used for everyday activities. That's why we offer you creating plans for business continuity, incident response, as well as disaster recovery for critical applications. Main goal of this kind of documents is to help to execute each step of the plan in the situation of disaster, crisis or other form of disruption, when time and stress factors may be important issues.

Every important procedure and every potential crisis situation needs to be tested on a regular basis. As EY we can offer our great experience in preparing and conducting that kind of tests and exercises which main goal is not only increase of the staff awareness, but also to prepare employees to react properly in crisis situations.

Every company and institution should recognize consequences of disruptions to business processes as well as amount of resources needed to avoid it. This is where Business Impact Assessment/Analysis (BIA) is becoming essential for taking any further steps in the process of  establishing fully operating Business Continuity Management framework. Aa a result of BIA your entity will receive broad knowledge about its assets and their importance, about processes functioning on an everyday basis and their criticality, with special focus on their potential business-stop consequences. Very important part of Business Impact Assessment is to recognize alternative ways to achieve business continuity for the most important processes as well as establishment of a so-called Minimum Acceptable Configuration, which is defined list of all assets (including staff) necessary to maintain tolerable level of process effectiveness.

Data is the most important asset for the huge majority of the organizations, both commercial and non-profit. That's why data protection is so popular topic in cybersecurity area. Although data protection is a continuous process, its implementation and establishing require the very first step which in this case is information classification and assessment. Every organization to effectively protect its data needs to define what kind of information is maintaining and proceeding as well as to decide which data and what amount of data needs to be protected the most. As EY we can led you through the whole process of classification and assessment of data and help you to understand what is your most valuable information.

Every industry has its own risks and threats. Maritime sector is not different on that field. In maritime you are facing risks that don't exist in any other field of activities and that's why it is so important to not only acknowledged all of the potential threats, but also to get ready for them to materialize. As a first step in this process we are offering you a full scope risk analysis that will help your organization to face any adversity ahead.

Each detected and defined risk should be managed in a proper way to avoid the situation in which it will materialize. Choosing an adequate method for every risk should be determined by multiple factors such as potential consequences of a threat, possibility of occurence as well as cost of risk minimalization. As an EY we can provide you with strategy which will provide a baseline for effective risk management process.

One of the essential parts of every-day business continuity for almost all of entities are their vendors and other third-parties. That's why it is very important not only to make sure that every important vendor has its own business continuity and disaster recovery solutions (we can help you to make sure that this is the case with another product from our offer - please refer to Vendor assessment (link)), but also to be prepared for any disruption of third party operations. This is where we come up with a solution, which is Exit plan for every critical third party in your entity. Exit plans are created in order to "expect the unexpected" and be ready for the situation in which third party can't deliver products, goods or services according to Service Level Agreements. In some cases the only way to avoid catastrophic impact of such situation is to have previously prepared and easy to launch plan of switching to a different third party partner or available alternative resources (e.g. on-premises infrastructure). We are offering not only creation and implementation of such plan, but also the safest and fastest path to its execution in order to avoid decision making deadlock.

As far as exit plans might be some additional safety measure for the relations with third party organizations, still the best way to avoid disruption in operational continuity is to make sure that vendors are very reliable partners and most probably there will be no need to execute exit plan. In order to do so we are offering comprehensive vendor assessment which will help you to acknowledge security level of third party entity as well as their readiness for service disruption and other threats and vulnerabilities.

Security of each application, that support critical processes security is crucial for every entity. It is not only important in the phase of planning and implementation (Security by design), but it is also extremely important to make sure that all of the procedures and policies as well as a day-to-day routine in the organization are keeping up all up-to-date security requirements. In order to assure that important applications and data which they proceed are properly secured we are performing IT audits in three main areas: access, change and operational management. In many years of our experience of that field we have not only developed our own proven methodologies, but also created very experienced and competent audit team.

We understand that in every industry many relationships between different organizations usually are existing and working in both ways. Because of that we are aware that some entities consider you as a vendor or a different kind of a third-party, The easiest way to ensure that your partners will consider you as trustworthy organization.

Encryption is one of the most important elements of proper data protection. Choosing the adequate way to encrypt important information (personal, commercial or classified for any other reason) is essential to avoid potential threats to data security, confidentiality and integrity.

Detection and response to security events are crucial to any organization and maritime sector is no different on that field. To achieve effectiveness in this area, there is a necessity to establish and implement appropriate policies and procedures as a base for any activity, especially in context of response time and events classification.

To avoid unauthorized access to any important assets, including data and to protect physical security of maritime facilities as well as to protect availability, integrity and confidentiality of information, each entity should introduce and follow requirements and procedures for physical and logical access.  As EY we can offer you our broad, long time experience on the field of establishing and implementing process of access management to your most important assets.

All of the requirements, policies, frameworks and even technology solutions would be useless when it comes to cybersecurity without knowledge and awareness of ships, docks and port facilities staff.