On February 21 we launched the IAPH Harbor Café online forum for an informal discussion on port cybersecurity which featured IAPH experts from Singapore, Ghana, Israel, France and the United States with participating ports from Germany, Morocco, Maldives, Cabo Verde, Japan and the US as well guests from Qatar, Panama and other countries. Questions to our cyber experts included how to get stakeholder buy-in at local and national level of the importance of dealing with cyberthreats at ports. Time was also spent discussing how to commence to put together and prioritise a cybersecurity strategy as a smaller port with limited resources. Participants enjoyed the free-flowing conversation over coffee, tea, soft drinks and even a beer. To openly discuss specific port-related issues we will use this channel again as it reduces one-way conversations to the audience often seen at webinars. It also gives the chance for members with small to medium ports to play a more active role sharing their experiences. We shall keep the link open for anyone among our membership wanting to engage with experts and we will also prepare some new sessions on specific topics after our #IAPH2022 pre-conference workshops are completed at the end of March.
