Free resources and other training can help ready trucking firms for the inevitable, according to transportation leaders.
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Cybersecurity preparation is crucial for carriers to help prevent costly and debilitating hacks like those that hit Ward Transport & Logistics and Estes Express Lines in recent years, according to experts.
Fast-acting attacks can quickly freeze trucking companies’ ability to haul freight, Ward’s VP of Technology Mike Zupon told Trucking Dive last month.
“That’s all they need is an hour and boom — or less than that,” Zupon said, adding that cyberattackers can disrupt operations with as little as a routine email phishing scheme.
Relationships with vendors and federal agencies can be lifelines when an attack occurs, said Zupon and others who spoke at the National Motor Freight Traffic Association’s Cybersecurity Conference in Cleveland in the fall.
“Critical infrastructure and businesses across all sectors continue to face increased threats from nation-state actors and transnational organized criminals using ransomware, exfiltrating data or burrowing deep into an enterprise,” Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s Sandra Radesky, associate director of vulnerability management, said in a November email.
