One virus is enough

摘要

As if there isn't enough to worry about with Covid-19, the continued depression in the offshore energy industry and the sluggish economy. Now the maritime industry is facing additional cybersecurity concerns as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As our cover story this month points out (see page 28), the increase in digi-talization and connectivity, combined with more employees now working from remote and sometimes poorly secured locations, has provided more fodder for cybercriminals to unleash their own viruses on workboat companies from the inland waterways to the U.S. Gulf. U.S. and UK cybersecurity agencies warned in April that "a growing number of cybercriminals and other malicious groups online are exploiting the Covid-19 outbreak for their own personal gain."