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entire 7,000 plus of? cer community. So you have an amalgamation of regu- here. We have to have the cyber profes- there’s a capacity piece there. Third par- as women come out and get their com- lation, particularly when it comes to sionals with the knowledge, so we just ty compliance, third party oversight and missions, we have to ? gure out how to emissions, and technology, particular- cut the ribbon on a cyber lab up at the alternative compliance programs: that’s retain them in our ranks, and we have ly when it comes to autonomy and the (U.S. Coast Guard) Academy, a $1.5 the way all the ? ag states are going, in- a women’s retention study that will be use of digital information and the way million cyber lab with more than 30 cluding the United States. coming out in the new calendar year. that people run their ships from Point kids in the new cyber major, so we’re That’s great, but I think we learned And then with African American ca- A to Point B. With that as a backdrop, growing some of our own. But there’s some lessons from El Faro that we need dets, we just graduated the largest num- what do you see – what are the de? n- going to be a lot of demand, and I think to oversee those third party organiza- ber in the academy’s history – 18 – last ing drivers that will most signi? cantly there’s a national or global shortage of tions. year, class of 2018. But we have to keep impact the Coast Guard during your cyber professionals. So even as we train We need to still issue the certi? cates, moving forward. That whole cadet core tenure and in the future? these young kids, industry is going to be but at the end of the day, the Coast Guard is more and more comprised of under- I think there are two components to looking to pick them off because they’re has to rise to that occasion from the represented minorities and re? ective of that: a complexity piece and a capacity bright, talented folks. training standpoint, from the size of our the society we serve. In fact, the class piece. On the complexity piece, clearly, And then there’s the capacity piece. workforce and from a skill set. We’ve that will graduate four years from now is you can’t enter that conversation without Just l ook at the size of the ships: it also had (separate) conversations look- about 38% under-represented minorities. talking about cyber. All the shipboard used to be a container ship would come ing at autonomous ships.

So that’s encouraging, but we’ve got operations, ships themselves, are much into Savannah and of? oad all of its What does that mean from a regula- work to do there. I’m committed to that more computer based in their applica- cargo. That same ship comes to Savan- tory standpoint? (Autonomous ships) are – the senior leadership team is commit- tions. Look at the NotPetya cyber attack nah today, of? oads some of the cargo, light years different but it’s exponentially ted to building our diversity. And that’s on Maersk, and domestically the Port of bounces up to Port of Virginia, bounces accelerated. We have to be in that space. really all about inclusivity. LA/LB where they had a malware intru- up to New York and then it sets sail back The nation looks to its Coast Guard; I sion. That can shut shipping down. across the Atlantic or back down through think globally the maritime community

Excellent. Let’s move from people to We have a role in that space, and the Panama Canal. Ships are bigger. looks to the United States Coast Guard technology, as today is a transcendent we’re building out cyber capabilities We just brought onboard 5,000 Sub- for leadership there. That will challenge time in the maritime world because with our Coast Guard Cyber Command chapter M-regulated towing vessels, so us. www.marinelink.com 49

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