As a shipping leader confronted with escalating cyber risk, sticking your head in the sand is no longer acceptable. Nor is it commercially viable. Cyber-attacks are not an anomaly any more.
CMA CGM is just the latest victim. It took nearly two weeks for it to restore its online customer systems after last month’s attack. It will take a while before the company fully understands whether losses are as severe as the $300m attack on Maersk in 2017.