The US Coast Guard has been urged to improve the cybersecurity infrastructure of the Maritime Transportation System (MTS), which includes ports, waterways, and vessels essential for transporting over $5.4 trillion worth of goods annually. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned in a report published this week that America’s maritime transportation system lacks a proper cybersecurity strategy to protect itself, and does not have reliable access to data related to vulnerabilities and past attacks. The GAO says that it found the MTS faced “significant and increasing cybersecurity…
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