Episode 12 - Marine Cyber - The innocent bystander risk

Bitesize Risk Podcast 

Welcome to this the 12th episode, in the series of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk podcasts.  Today, your host Captain Thomas Brown has the pleasure of speaking with Antonio “Johnny” Martinelli.  Johnny came to our attention when he appeared in this year’s Maritime Cyber Conference, ‘Hack the Port’ in Florida.  Johnny is currently the Director of Cybersecurity Training with the Grimm Security Engineering group but is most well-known for his work on the American TSA Master Key leaks between 2014 and 2018.

Today we will discuss remote vessel access, the potential consequences of a failure to detect malware embedded within shipboard IT and OT systems and the risk of virus migration from ship to shore and the possible consequences thereof.

Speaker Bio

Antonio “Johnny” Martinelli is a predominant personality in the Information Security community, most well-known for his work on the American TSA Master Key leaks between 2014 and 2018 and the Venmo public feed scraping exposures in 2018. Currently the Director of Cybersecurity Training with the Grimm Security Engineering group, he has formerly partnered with Australian firm 'Kasada' to defend against the automated abuse of web infrastructure and was the lead consultant on Uptake, Inc's Industrial Cybersecurity Platform. Prior to this, he spent many years in the field as a penetration tester, focusing heavily on both IT and physical security of financial and medical facilities, Security Engineer for a global Fortune 500 retail corporation, and Mainframe auditor and Systems Engineer for several IT asset recovery firms.