ABSTRACT
The shipping industry has been slower to adapt to cyber risk than some other areas of commerce. This may in part have been due to a perception that cyber risk principally concerned issues of data management and data loss. It may also have been a result of the perception that ships trading at sea are relatively isolated and therefore immune from the broader world of interconnected cyber networks. The chapter considers consequences of insurance coverage. The Government also emphasises, however, that it intends that there should be high level of dialogue between the marine sector and the Government in developing these standards and it will be interesting to see how closely the mirror the International Maritime Organization and International Safety Management standards. The question which then arises is how inadequate cyber safety measures either on board a ship or shore side might impact the civil liability of a vessel and its owners or operators in the event of an accident.
