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leading the charge, namely what is hap- threat patterns and the changing regulato- and other readiness services to owners, sectors, such as Naval. To this end, LR pening at MEPC with the Ballast Water ry environment, designed to help clients operators and other clients against the has chosen to work with QinetiQ, bring-

Convention. But Darley said that one that understand how cyber secure they are US Coast Guard Strategy on cyber se- ing the bene? ts of QinetiQ’s cyber secu- he and his team are monitoring particu- now and what level of security they want curity and forthcoming IMO regulations rity skills, knowledge and experience, to larly closely are in regards to cyber secu- to achieve in the future. The new offer as well as the cyber security best prac- complement LR’s own expertise in ma- rity, speci? cally conversations premised will deliver cyber security gap analysis tice already established in other industry rine and offshore risk management.

on what the U.S. Coast Guard is doing in regards to its cyber security regulations. “We’re trying to align ourselves with what we know is happening in the U.S.

Coast Guard, what we know is happening from an IMO perspective to make sure our services are best prepared.”

The Evolution of Class

Without hesitation Darley identi? es the digital revolution and all that it entails (ie. cyber security) as the de? ning topic driving the evolution of ‘class’ today. “This evolution is a digital evolution, as it is taking our knowledge and capability – to do physical inspections – and mov- ing that to a digital future and regime.”

In March LR launched the next stream in its cyber and digitalization suite of services, an end-to-end set of solutions addresses the need to keep people, assets and systems secure within the constantly changing cyber security landscape. “The world is moving rapidly, and for the last six months we’ve been developing our Cyber Security Value proposition,” said Darley. “When people think about cyber security, they tend look at it from an external point of view. But there are inter- nal components too, and it doesn’t seem that companies are paying as close of at- tention to the internal component.” “A ship is effectively a collection of components and systems that require interdependency,” he said in illustrating the point. “Multiple OEMs and compet- ing products; that interdependency chain has not really been addressed (from a cy- ber security perspective).”

He cites a recent example where an

OEM for HVAC went onboard a megay- acht and installed an update to the HVAC system, an update which subsequently and without intention closed the ? re dampers to the engine room. The engines were running, and with the ? re dampers closed all of the air was sucked out of the engine room, causing a blackout on the ship. “Fortunately no one was in the engine room and no one was hurt, but it shows where something simple can cause a big problem,” said Darley. “He didn’t maliciously go to attack the vessel, and it’s not some terrorist organization … it’s just an OEM doing his job which had un- intended consequences. These things we are seeing are increasingly happening.”

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