Fixing cybersecurity problems requires understanding how seafarers themselves perceive cyber risks.
[By Nancy Bazilchuk]
It was the afternoon of June 27, 2017, when nearly every computer serving the Danish shipping giant Maersk went dark. A piece of malware called NotPetya, created by Russians to attack the Ukraine, had accidently snuck into the company’s system when a Maersk finance executive in Odessa asked his IT Department to install accounting software that — unbeknownst to them — opened the door to the cyber attack.
While Maersk wasn’t the target — the bug had been created by Russian…