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Securing Cyber Defense

“The debut of the Port of Los Angeles’s new Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) has been turning heads. The state-of-the-art port community cyber defense solution is created to improve cybersecurity readiness and enhance its threat-sharing and recovery capabilities among supply chain stakeholders. 

Port Executive Gene Seroka said, “We must take every precaution against potential cyber incidents, particularly those that could threaten or disrupt the flow of cargo. This new Cyber Resilience Center provides a new level of awareness for our stakeholders by providing enhanced intelligence, better collective knowledge sharing and heightened protection against cyber threats within our supply chain community.”

Christopher McCurdy, General Manager of IBM Security Services added, “The past year has proven the vital role that ports hold to our nation’s critical infrastructure, supply chains and economy, underscoring that its paramount we secure this ecosystem. The Port of Los Angeles is setting a new industry standard with a first-of-its-kind initiative to increase cyber readiness across the maritime community. With IBM’s cutting-edge technologies in cloud and AI fueling the CRC, we’re able to provide the maritime ecosystem with the threat insights necessary to stay ahead of cyber threats and improve response time.”

As a system of systems, the CRC enables participating stakeholders to automatically share cyber threat indicators and potential defensive measures with each other. This amalgamates threat information for the port’s stakeholders and reduces risk with cyber-disruption events of the supply chain. The port will be receiving, analyzing, and sharing information amongst its stakeholders who provide essential support services, as well as external intelligence sources. 

Setting the maritime industry standard for cybersecurity when it established the Cyber Security Operations center in 2014, the Port of Los Angeles designed the platform to help protect its internal networks. Building on the infrastructure by improving the quality, quantity and speed of cyber information sharing among port stakeholders, the newly designed CRC is leveraging the security model to create a more inclusive maritime community. 

With so much focus on our ocean ports, challenges with maritime shipping, and the elevated political attention, SecurCapital recognizes this critical accomplishment by the Port of Los Angeles on prioritizing cyber defense readiness.