CYBERSECURITY AND THE THREAT TO LOGISTICS

July 29, 2019

For many people working in transport and logistics, 2017 was a year of reckoning with a new era of cyberthreat. In a year that began with allegations that state sponsored hacking was used to influence the US Presidential Election, followed hotly by two of history’s most devastating ransomware attacks, WannaCry and NotPetya, scarcely a day went by without cybercrime dominating the headlines. Logistics companies found themselves thrown unexpectedly into the centre of this new threat landscape following high-profile incidents.

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Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation is an executive agency, which means it reports directly to the Governor of Florida. FDOT’s primary statutory responsibility is to coordinate the planning and development of a safe, viable, and balanced state transportation system serving all regions of the state, and to assure the compatibility of all components, including multimodal facilities. A multimodal transportation system combines two or more modes of movement of people or goods. Florida’s transportation system includes roadway, air, rail, sea, spaceports, bus transit, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

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