CASE STUDY The Challenge How do you communicate with the world from the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean? Consider also being aboard a gigantic, steel framed engine, carrying potentially explosive products or life saving supplies from one side of the world to the other for months at a time. Now factor in how email is exploited as an attack vector against vessels as recently seen in news headlines. Cybercriminals target ships at sea for a number of reasons, including ransomware (demanding payment to return control of a ship’s navigation system, for example), identity theft (targeting ship email systems in order to infect unsuspecting crew members), and politically-driven motives, such as decreasing a naval vessel’s defensive capabilities. Regardless of the initial motive, th

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