Batten the Hatches: Cybersecurity with Military Mariners
Interviews with 20 U.S. Navy and Coast Guard mariners reveal informal, safety-oriented shipboard cyber risk models that may delay attribution and containment.
The study conducts semi-structured interviews with 20 military mariners from U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels to understand how service members recognize and respond to cyber risk aboard ships. Unique consequences of compromising military systems identified include weapon takeover and purposeful geopolitical escalation. Cybersecurity is organizationally abstract on ships, so mariners build cyber risk models from informal experience rather than formal instruction. A safety-oriented incident-response model creates resilience but may delay cyber attribution and containment.
- Twenty U.S. Navy and Coast Guard mariners interviewed on shipboard cyber risk.
- Mariners build cyber risk models from informal experience, not formal instruction.
- Safety-oriented incident response creates resilience but delays attribution and containment.
- Compromise consequences include weapon takeover and geopolitical escalation.
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1 min read at arxiv.orgCyberwarfare has become a key component of contemporary geopolitical conflict. However, there has been extremely limited systematic investigation into how cybersecurity is handled by military organizations and personnel. The military context is unique compared to other operational ones, with immense resource availability (U.
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