Shipping’s digital revolution is bringing about a wave of change in the way we do business. With a range of benefits, from voyage optimization reducing costs and emissions, to electronic logbooks streamlining the reporting process, we’re just beginning to unlock the potential of digitalization. Key to this is access to quality data: be it ship design, operations or the whole seaborne logistics ecosystem itself, data is becoming more accessible, dynamic and granular.
Interestingly, data has found a new home in the cloud; from data storage to sharing, the cloud is an integral part of many organizations’ digital infrastructure. However, this is not without its challenges and risks.
While data empowers companies, it can also be vulnerable in today’s interconnected ecosystem, increasing the need to build cyber resilience as an industry. There are concrete steps we can take to minimize the effects of data leaks, hacks, cyberattacks and incidents, all of which are on the rise, and protect people, cargo, vessels and other valuable assets. This begins by raising the importance of data security and cyber resilience on business agendas so that we can all enjoy the advantages of…
