Addressing cyber security vulnerabilities and initiatives in Malaysia maritime industry

Abstract

Cyber security is a global issue to any organisations, sectors and industries. Thus, this piece of article is important for this journal as it focuses on interdisciplinary cyber security in human aspects and policy perspectives. The issue is emerging on cyber-attack across the globe. The cyber-attack leads to physical consequences especially loss of data, environment and human. This has created concern on level of awareness within maritime management and industry. The level of awareness provides understanding how these affect the industry in order to minimize cost. Main problems are there is no alarm warning for vulnerability of cyber security and there is no mandatory framework on this issue. Thus, this is a conceptual paper reviews concepts and studies to propose the ideas and solution. Therefore, this has brought the idea of cyber risk management whereby involves top-down approach. This does affect the organisation or industry. In addition, investing in maritime cyber security needs a thorough analysis. This could reduce the cyber risk with the use of cyber risk assessment. On the other hand, information sharing is also crucial which reflects this issue on cyber security. Information sharing can also be used with the collaboration from stakeholders. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) makes the process easier, efficient and effective. Maritime industry needs to have smart ports and digital solution with the age of revolution 4.0. Maritime industry players need to integrate the system and services to ensure resilient to such attacks. Required cyber security standards for maritime industry and increase level of awareness can address this issue. Future research will further investigate the cyber risk assessment analysis for cyber safe approach with the understanding of maritime logistic sector to ensure information sharing in supply chain. With the technology, this will improve logistic processes.