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As you know by now, since its inception in 2000 under the leadership of ADM Siler (former USCG Commandant), the Academy has been an institution with no walls, exporting all of its instructor-led training to the bays, rivers, lakes, harbors, and coastline of the United States (and internationally), so that agencies and officers can receive their training in their area of operations, on their boats, and alongside their local partners. Understanding the increased challenges to time, budgets, and an evolving workforce that public safety agencies are facing all across the country (see the White Paper: Navigating the Changing Seascape of Maritime Public Safety), the Academy has used its knowledge, relationships, resources, adult learning expertise, and technology partnerships to provide a mobile, easily accessible and affordable solution for every officer and department.
For Officers, Agencies, Departments, and Organizations - An Opportunity to Save Time and Money
In a unique Private-Public Partnership, the NMLEA has worked with recognized leaders in the online/e-learning workspace, and subject matter experts from the public safety community, to provide a holistic solution for public safety training. The AcademyOnline Program provides agencies with a wealth of online learning tools that encompass all aspects of maritime law enforcement, public safety, and emergency response. Most importantly, the AcademyOnline Program allows you as an agency, to transform your traditional Instructor-Led Training (ILT) into an adaptable, affordable, accessible mobile learning platform.
For Trainers, SMEs, and Professional Instructors - An Opportunity to Reach Further, and Be Rewarded
It also provides trainers and professional instructors an opportunity to bring their skills to the mobile world, reaching more people across the country (and internationally) than they ever could before, without having to invest time, effort, and money into the digital learning landscape. There is no research that has to be done on what LMS to purchase, or time spent searching for a platform to use to record your teaching. There is no learning-curve or struggle trying to figure out how to translate a traditional Instructor-Led Training (ILT) course into the online environment. The Academy staff will work wiht you and facilitate the process.
Introducing "aLEX", The Academy's Accessible, Adaptable, Affordable, and Advanced Learning Exchange. Click here to learn more about “aLEX!”
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.
United States Coast Guard
First Coast Guard District command center crews, from Maine to Northern New Jersey, have a new tool to help distressed mariners come home to their families after being out to sea.
The i911 program allows for watchstanders to use a mariner’s cellphone number to assist in finding their location for Coast Guard rescue crews to locate them faster.
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My Guidon
Recreation on the water is a way of life in the state of Missouri, which is home to hundreds of lakes, rivers and streams. Unfortunately, nearly any body of water that holds the potential for fun and relaxation also holds the potential for accidents and deaths.
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The National Law Review
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC or Commission) recently announced its adoption of a final interpretive rule to provide the maritime community guidance on the “reasonableness” of detention and demurrage charges.
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The Westerly Sun
Early boating season has arrived, and with temperatures reaching 70 over the last several days, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Protection is asking boaters to maintain social distancing rules as they prepare their vessels and head out on the water.
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Defense News
The U.S. Navy’s long-awaited award of a contract to design and build a new class of frigates has brought with it calls to dramatically expand the planned class of 20 ships to a fleet of 70 or more hulls. Like recent congressional efforts to build more of today’s amphibious ships or destroyers, these recommendations risk putting the Navy on an unsustainable path.
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Valley Breeze
As the early boating season gears up, the Department of Environmental Management is asking boaters to follow COVID-19 social distancing rules and other safety guidelines as they work on their boats at marinas and boatyards and while they’re on the water.
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Defence Web
The long-term consequences of COVID-19 will make already difficult decisions about South Africa’s maritime security even more complex. A well-managed maritime sector is key to the country’s economic recovery from the pandemic, and its long-term growth. South Africa now needs to make hard choices about how to achieve this within the constraints forced on it by COVID-19.
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Business Insider
The Navy has released details on a proposed new class of light amphibious warships. Details have emerged about a new class of amphibious warships that Navy and Marine Corps leaders say will be essential to competing with near-peer adversaries at sea.
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