A Conceptual Model of Port Cybersecurity and Threats: Knowledge and Understanding

Authors : Hakan AKYILDIZ

Pages : 23-32

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Publication Date : 2022-05-18

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The use of risk analysis methods as decision support tools is getting more and more acceptance to analyze, recover or mitigate potential risks in engineering applications. Through the analysis to obtain more reliable and realistic solutions, level of understanding, quality of knowledge, uncertainty level of cybersecurity and threats, sensitivity levels of model parameters, are integrated to model parameters to analyze port cybersecurity and threats. In the port activities to increase their competitiveness, the digitalization of port operators with the integrated cyber technology becomes the major vulnerability for cybersecurity and threats. In order to investigate the cybersecurity measures, a risk perspective for the integrated risk management and decision making process conceptualized in terms of human, infrastructure, and procedure factors. Additionally, it is investigated the relationships between port cybersecurity hygiene and cyber threats in terms of hacktivism, cyber criminality, cyber espionage, cyber terrorism, and cyber war. The results indicated that ports tended to encounter hacktivism when their human, infrastructure, and procedure factors were vulnerable. The weakness of the human factor could also lead to cyber terrorism, while the deficiency of the infrastructure factor could lead to cyber criminality. Moreover, ports were likely to be harmed by cyber espionage if their procedure factor was poorly implemented.
Keywords : Port cybersecurity and Threats, Cyber technology, Port digitalization, integrated risk assessment, uncertainty analysis

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