Developing Maritime Digital Competencies

In recent years, there has been a relentless drive by all industries to digitalize many everyday operations. The maritime industry is no exception, with the increase in digital tools that assist operations of seafarer. What more, much this technology now networked together, or Internet, which opens seafarer up wave new cyber risks. Maritime communication systems have often demonstrated as insecure past. Thus, without appropriate training, seafarers are ill-prepared protect themselves, and for they responsible, from impacts incidents. This article argues clear link between training safety. As such, need develop standardized competencies seafarers. creation these needs be considerate company-specific operation-spe-cific risk management practices. presents one possible solution development utilizing well-estab-lished NIST Cybersecurity Framework.