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Last week we talked about how it was "Time to Take This Outside", as it relates to your traditional instructor-led training (ILT), and why public safety agencies, companies, and organizations all across the country need to look now at alternative ways to not only meet their training requirements, but enhance them (see the whole article by clicking here.) Let’s talk about the “How,” and more importantly, how to do it for free.
We talked about why this is an important step, and a necessary step in the maturation of an agency's training in the shadow of the coronavirus. But often, to a decision maker this looks like a daunting task. “How do I transition or convert an ILT course to a mobile course?” or “Where do I begin?” are common and understandable questions. Here are some answers, as they relate to what we do here at the NMLEA.
To begin, we look at the course you’re considering or feeling prompted to migrate into the mobile learning world, and evaluate the materials that you already have in your course. Things like PowerPoints, videos, task lists, tests, quizzes, check on learning prompts, and student/learner activities, are all put together in a package that will enable the NMLEA team to go to work on the conversion. Note that if there are some of those elements that need some enhancement or are missing, the team is experienced in putting together the right pieces and creating a learning solution that ensures a learner-centric experience.
Next, we use a team of mobile/virtual instructional designers that have developed courses for the USCG and ports all across the country, (including our exclusive MTSA required training) to bring your materials to the mobile environment. Placed in our robust Learning Management System (LMS) that’s tailored and customized just for the agency’s needs, supervisors and managers now have an administrative tool that can keep track of who has been trained, who hasn’t, where they are in the course, how they scored on tests and many other features. For the student or learner, the LMS allows them to stop and pick up where they left off at any time of day or night, from their laptop, MDT, tablet or smartphone and at their pace. The best part: The LMS is provided free to anyone who converts or develops training through the NMLEA.
Put simply, it’s that simple. Contact us today at info@nmlea.org, to learn how we can help you transform your training, and “Go Mobile!”here
Cyber attackers are not “staying home” during this pandemic. In fact, they are getting more aggressive as more companies, organizations, and individual are deploying their workforces and workflows remotely onto the digital frontier. Adversaries are using the virus to go viral.
To quote a Department of State Update on Cybersecurity Threats and Prevention in the Current COVID-19 Environment "if you are wondering, are cyber attacks slowing down in this environment with COVID-19, they are not. In fact, they are increasing.” In the update Mr. Edward Stroz, Co-President of Aon Cyber Solutions and former Special Agent with the FBI, reports seeing “a five-fold – that would be five times – increase in the types of cyber crime.”
Right now, it is easy to see how our focus may be away from the cybersecurity front… which is what the attackers are seeing, too. “During pandemics, organizations are focused on employee health and business continuity,” says Richard Addiscott, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner. “Take preemptive steps to ensure the resiliency and security of your organization’s operations as attackers seek to exploit human nature and nonstandard operating modes.”
At the NMLEA, we too see the threat and the increased attacks happening within the maritime environment and throughout our national infrastructure. Having recognized NetFoundry as a STAR Product, the Academy is working with them to provide FREE set-up of a Zero Trust Network for maritime organizations that need it.
What is a “Zero Trust Network” you ask?
The Zero Trust concept was founded by John Kindervag, a former analyst at Forrester Research, and it basically is built upon the premise that organizations want a more reliable way of preventing leaks of confidential data and lowering the risk of modern cyber-attacks against their network.
And because the majority of businesses use traditional security architecture that functions on the theory that anything which is contained within their own network can be considered trustworthy, the reason for Zero Trust Networks is growing exponentially. Especially when you consider our increasing remote connectivity, and increasing attack surface, and the fact that security threats can arise internally and with even more penetration intelligence than ever before.
Dr. Chase Cunningham became Kindervag's successor as a Principal Analyst at Forrester in championing a Zero Trust Access approach. "Zero Trust is what's entailed in those two words, meaning trust nothing, don't trust password management, don't trust credentials, don't trust users, and don't trust the network," Cunningham told PCMag at the Zero Trust Summit.
Put simply, a Zero Trust Network is a means of securing the connection between one point to another point, and allowing only those people with specific purpose to access only those things that are specific to them. In this maritime world of hundreds of connections and applications, it is much easier to create the Zero Trust Network, than it is to build all the security measures internally around the digital infrastructure. So easier, that a Zero Trust Network can literally be set up in minutes.
And you can get it for FREE, up until July 2020. So contact us today to learn more about how you can have a Zero Trust Network set up for FREE by clicking here.
To learn more about NetFoundry as a STAR Product, click here. Remember, attackers are not “Staying Home”. They are going viral during this virus.
The Maritime Executive
Hundreds of thousands of seafarers are currently stranded on ships and cannot disembark because of lockdown policies. The novel COVID-19 coronavirus has caused many nations to close their borders, leaving the welfare of seafarers in question.
Many seafarers go to sea for many months at a time, but with the change that this pandemic brings, there is a legitimate cause for concern.
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Trade Only Today
The marine industry, like most other industries, is integrating technologies in new ways. In the near future, a boat may greet its owner with a cheery, “Ahoy, captain,” automatically fire up the engine, send diagnostics and maintenance alerts to a smartphone, set course via voice command, and order cocktails to be served at the destination upon arrival. Maybe the boat will even post on Instagram pictures of the whole trip.
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Boating Industry
At the end of 2019, NMMA’s Marine CEO Sentiment Survey found business confidence among marine manufacturer CEOs. But then things kind of fell off the proverbial cliff and Swartz is now estimating that new unit boat sales in the U.S. will decline in the 20 — 25% range for calendar 2020. Who really knows at this point though? June and July seem a long way off, never mind November and December.
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Navy Times
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy plans on hosting a virtual graduation ceremony on May 20 as a measure to accommodate current social distancing practices implemented in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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UPI
The U.S. Coast Guard named Rear Adm. Melissa Bert as its first female judge advocate and chief counsel, its top legal position. She previously was director of governmental and public affairs for the Coast Guard, responsible for dialogues with Congress, the media and other inter-governmental entities.
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The Maritime Executive
Navigating the challenges of the current reality, DNV GL completes the first remote cybersecurity assessment. The widescale impact of COVID-19 had not hit when DNV GL Maritime Advisory was contracted to conduct a cybersecurity assessment and penetration test for an offshore asset. Before long, travel had become a risk and the parties were forced to evaluate alternative means of performing the related surveys.
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