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.NMLEA NEWS
Special NMLEA Insider Offer: Performance Problem Solving Training
As was recently announced, the NMLEA and Interact Performance Systems have forged a great partnership, and from it comes some great training to NMLEA “Insiders.” The four day Performance Problem Solving course is now available to the NMLEA community of professionals online through a Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) delivery. NMLEA friends will receive a $400 Introductory Discount for one of three delivery dates in March, April and May.
To check out the dates and learn more about the course dates and times, go to the catalog link at https://interact.courselaunch.io/catalog/. For the NMLEA discount code, or to learn more about this training or other interpersonal skills training, send an email to mark.dupont@nmlea.org.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
U.S. deploys Coast Guard far from home to counter China
The Wall Street Journal
Early last December, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Myrtle Hazard sailed through the night, anchored off the Pacific island nation of Palau and boarded a group of Chinese boats to help seize tens of thousands of dollars worth of sea cucumber that had allegedly been harvested illegally.
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Perils of a new dimension: Socially engineered attacks in maritime cybersecurity
CIMSEC
Maritime digital transformation is in its most rapid and turbulent era. Such a transformation offers substantial advantages and benefits, but with commensurate risks in the cyber domain.
On June 16, 2017, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted Resolution MSC.428(98) that “encourages administrations to ensure that cyber risks are appropriately addressed in existing safety management systems (as defined in the ISM Code) no later than the first annual verification of the company’s Document of Compliance (DOC) after 1 January 2021.”
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Schultz: Coast Guard units remain in high demand as forces stretches to meet needs
USNI News
The Coast Guard remains in big demand at home and overseas as it continues to modernize the service and develop its force, the service’s top officer said in an annual address last week.
Speaking in a hangar in San Diego recently for his third “State of the Coast Guard” address, Adm. Karl Schultz went over operations and work in 2020, including drug interdictions, domestic disaster support, reserve mobilizations to support the COVID-19 pandemic missions and, most recently, FEMA-led vaccinations.
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Long-running cyberattack on Indian seaport
The Maritime Executive
As Indian authorities block attempts by Chinese affiliated groups from attacking the country's electrical sector, reports have emerged that they are actively targeting an Indian port in the process.
Dryad Global reports that according to US firm Recorded Future, at least one connection opened by the hackers into the network system of an unnamed Indian port remained active for an extended period.
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Boat engine cutoff switch law takes effect April 1
Boating Industry
There are new engine cutoff device wear requirements for recreational boat operators as part of the National Defense Authorization Act that included a U.S. Coast Guard Reauthorization. Effective April 1, 2021, the new law requires a vessel operator to use either a helm or outboard lanyard or wireless ECOS on certain vessels less than 26 feet when traveling on plane or above displacement speed.
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Recent Louisiana boating deaths drive home importance of safety
Houma Today
A spate of recent deaths on Louisiana waters has drawn attention to the importance of boating safety.
Louisiana has recorded seven boating deaths so far this year. At this point in 2020, there were only two.
“We haven’t even gotten into the prime boating season in Louisiana yet and we are seeing fatalities climb at an alarming pace,” said Col. Chad Hebert, head of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department's Enforcement Division.
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Maritime law expected to give Beijing an edge in South China Sea legal disputes
VOA Cambodia
Chinese officials will pass a basic maritime law to formalize their sovereignty claims over the contested, resource-rich South China Sea and defend those claims more effectively in the international legal space, media reports and analysts say.
A plan disclosed at annual legislative sessions in Beijing early this month calls for approving a basic maritime law, media outlets in China reported.
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Tackling maritime cyber threats: A call for cross-stakeholder cooperation
CIMSEC
“Cyber War does not take place in the present, and […] it is unlikely that Cyber War will occur in the future,” stated German political scientist Thomas Rid several years ago, arguing that no cyberattack can be viewed as an act of war on its own. It does indeed seem difficult to imagine a war waged just by way of cyberattacks, although the quick development of new technologies makes predicting the possibilities of cyberattacks in the future increasingly difficult.
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