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Forbes
The infamous NotPetya ransomware ran rampant last summer. One of its most high-profile victims was A.P. Moller-Maersk. The Dutch shipping giant was reportedly saddled with $200 million in costs related to the outbreak. Recently another major industry player was hit. Shanghai-based Cosco, the world's fourth-largest maritime shipper, reported a ransomware outbreak of its own.
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NMLEA
As articulated in our webinar about the subject and our White Paper, "No Safe Harbor," the cybersecurity risk in the maritime domain is increasing, not decreasing. For maritime stakeholders (port authorities, shipping companies, cruise lines, etc.), now is the time to look at a scalable cyber risk management tool that can identify your assets, their key vulnerabilities, and potential exploits, and prioritize them for you using intelligence resources and a dashboard visual Risk Score that can help you manage the threats.
The Academy has identified RiskSense as a STAR Product, and through a unique Public-Private Partnership is in the process of identifying key ports where a pilot program can demonstrate how proactive cyber risk management can significantly impact the maritime domain. If you want to learn more about cyber risk management, and why RiskSense is getting a lot of national, industry and government attention, check out this story in American Security Today. You'll see an interview with the RiskSense CEO Dr. Srinivas Makkamala, and a breakdown of what makes RiskSense so different in this evolving world.
If you would like to be part of this cybersecurity pilot program or would like to learn more about how RiskSense platform can provide the cyber risk management tools that you need to safety and securely become proactive vs. reactive for as little as $12.50 per device, contact us at Cyber@nmlea.org. You can also contact us for confidential, no-cost cybersecurity risk assessment.
| NMLEA 2018-2019 workshop planning taking Place — First cities selected!
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NMLEA
As reported in previous weeks, the Academy staff is working on its workshop plans for the balance of the year, and into 2019. With the goal is to deliver a workshop in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, Northwest and Southwest areas, some cities have been selected:
Boston, Miami, Indianapolis, San Diego, Seattle, Houston have been selected as the workshop sites, with more locations in discussion and planning. Dates to be chosen and released in the coming weeks.
The 1 or 2 day Workshop Agendas include subject areas like these: Tactical Behavior Science, Advanced Firearms training, Maritime Active Threat Response, Industry State of the Union (hear directly from key manufacturers), Grant Forecast (what's on the horizon as it relates to the PSGP,) Training Advances in the Maritime First Responder Community, National Maritime Intelligence Efforts (and how they relate to you and your area of operations,) and the latest in Maritime Border Security.
Would you like a workshop in your area? You can be a part of the planning process by letting us know when and where you would like to have the workshop. Just send an email to info@nmlea.org with "Workshops" in the subject line. Make your recommendations and we’ll be sure to include you in the process. Or, if you like to brainstorm about how a workshop would look in your area, reach out to the boss directly: Mark.DuPont@nmlea.org.
NMLEA
This week FEMA released “Planning Considerations: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks” to aid all community partners, including all levels of government, infrastructure owners and operators, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and volunteer organizations, in planning and preparing for complex coordinated terrorist attack scenarios.
Complex coordinated terrorist attacks represent an evolving and dynamic terrorist threat with the potential for mass casualties and infrastructure damage anywhere and at any time. The guide includes the unique characteristics of complex coordinated terrorist attacks, identifies potential challenges, and discusses the six-step planning process as it relates to complex coordinated terrorist attacks. The guide also provides information on identifying the capabilities necessary to respond to complex coordinated terrorist attacks using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, and includes a list of relevant, available resources.
To download a copy of Planning Considerations: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks visit https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1532550673102-c4846f270150682decbda99b37524ca6/Planning_Considerations-Complex_Coordinated_Terrorist_Attacks.pdf.
To help in planning, training, exercise development and consultation as it relates to CCTA preparedness, contact the Academy staff for experienced assistance by emailing us at Info@nmlea.org.
NMLEA
An Interview with Greg "Cruz" Grutter, one of the Nation's premier firearms experts and instructors, with local, federal and military law enforcement/firearms experience.
Maritime firearms training is one of the areas that has been neglected over the years. All across the country, finding an agency that actually practices waterborne engagements or one that strives for proficiency of their officers on the water is rare. Learn more about how an advanced maritime firearms course can be tailored to your department, agency, or region and customized to meet the needs of your officers, by contacting the Academy at info@nmlea.org. You'll learn how the Nation's best firearms instructors can provide you the "hands-on" skills training that the officers who patrol, protect and preserve our maritime domain deserve.
NMLEA
As the heat builds up in the body due to increased stress, anxiety and the adrenaline spikes commonly associated with deception and stress, subjects will perform various behaviors intended to lower body temperature. Sweating is common among the guilty and innocent, but the need to ventilate physically is far more common to appear in deceptive and high-stress subjects.
Using clothing and other objects, ventilation behavior can appear in several forms:
- Pulling or tugging a shirt collar to force air into the shirt and allow heat to escape. (most commonly seen in male subjects)
- Pulling the front of a shirt to ventilate heat
- Moving long hair away from the back of the neck in order to allow airflow
- Adjustments wherein a subject lifts their bottom from a chair for an unusually long period.
Regardless of the type of ventilation behavior exhibited, all are intended to pacify the same need. All ventilation behavior is thus grouped into one single category without variable fluctuations in the upper right corner of the cell.
For more information on Tactical Behavioral Science, or to receive more details on the 8-hour training course, click here.
U.S. 3rd Fleet via DVIDS
Naval and merchant maritime experts partnered together to deliver enhanced maritime domain awareness for the first time in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2018. MDA is the ability to maintain situational awareness of sea-going vessel movements, and is used to assess the normal patterns of life on major trade routes. Their interaction provided an adaptive capability that is an important part of maritime security operations.
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Port Technology
In a recent video from Rolls-Royce, Global Software Capability Team Leader Dr. Robert Oates, and Cyber Security Leader Karo Vallittu, have outlined the company’s extensive protective measures against cyber-attacks. The engineering giant is focusing on the development of its cybersecurity cryptography and authenticated communications systems to allow better monitoring in maritime networks and quicker responses to unexpected situations.
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The Maritime Executive
Fatigue is a hazard because it may affect a seafarer's ability to do their job effectively and safely. Effectively dealing with fatigue in the marine environment requires a comprehensive and holistic approach that recognizes ship design, and the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in the mitigation and management of fatigue.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank this month in Missouri, killing 17 people, put profits over people's safety when they decided to put the Ride the Ducks boat on a lake despite design problems and warnings of severe weather, a lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City seeks $100 million in damages on behalf of two of nine members of an Indiana family who died when the tourist boat sank July 19 at Table Rock Lake near Branson. Others who died were from Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri, including two from St. Louis County.
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The Bourne Enterprise
The Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security team, originally headquartered in Boston, now has a new home on Joint Base Cape Cod. There are 51 crew members to the team, and six 29-foot response boats, some of which are outfitted with automatic machine guns affixed to the bow, said team executive officer Lieutenant Colin Boyle.
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Education Week
As part of their efforts to prevent school shootings, Florida lawmakers mandated the creation of a centralized database that will combine individual-level records from the state's law enforcement and social services agencies with information from people’s personal social media accounts. The provision, tucked within the 105-page law passed in March following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, marks a potentially dramatic increase in the state's collection and sharing of data on individuals.
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