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A Case for Maritime Cybersecurity Capability

By Max Bobys,

Vice President, HudsonAnalytix – Cyber

ENGINEERED s I waited for my daughter’s COOLING SOLUTIONS.

decision regarding the pea- nuts she was contemplat-

Aing, an Economist magazine headline grabbed my attention: Why

Computers Will Never be Safe . We were in one of those unexceptional air- port newsstands waiting for our ? ight, returning to reality from vacation, and the subject was cybersecurity. It was

April, and the subject had consumed me since the previous summer as our com- pany developed a potentially disruptive cybersecurity management platform for the maritime industry. One’s last vaca- tion day is always a bit grim as the mind shifts from concerns of leisure to work.

And mine was cybersecurity.

Of course, with my daughter’s pea- nuts, I purchased the magazine. I hadn’t thought much on the subject over the past week and ? gured it would ease my mind back into the digital. Though the iconic magazine rarely disappoints, little was offered that I didn’t already know, but a few interesting tidbits about software code error estimates got me thinking about ships.

Commercial software is often released to the market riddled – like Swiss cheese – with ? aws. While programmers aver- pyard Shipy Sanmar Sh py Pho Photo courtesy y of f Sanmar Shipyards sPhoto courtesy of Sanmar Shipyards age between 10 and 50 errors per 1,000 lines of code, and larger companies can reduce this to .5 per 1,000, such rates suggest the presence of thousands of ex- ®

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