NIST guide offers cyber controls baseline for maritime sector

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in May will issue a “how-to” guide for the maritime sector outlining an approach to building an industry-wide “minimum state profile” for implementing the federal framework of cybersecurity standards.

Dan Tobin, senior security engineer at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, said in an email to stakeholders that the center will issue the U.S. Coast Guard’s maritime “profile,” based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity framework, along with the new...