Author: Michael McNicholas
ISBN No: 9780128036723
Review date: 13/09/2026
No of pages: 528
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier)
Publisher URL:
http://store.elsevier.com/Maritime-Security/Michael-McNicholas/isbn-9780128036723/
Year of publication: 02/08/2016
Brief:
Maritime Security: An Introduction, Second Edition by Michael McNicholas. Published 2016 by Butterworth-Heinemann, 528 pages, ISBN 9780128036723, print or ebook ยฃ64.60.
price
£64.60
Whether import or export, whatever your place in the supply chain, and whether you want to prevent bad things coming in or out – such as illegal drugs, or trafficked people – or want to protect your assets such as raw materials or finished goods from theft, maritime security matters to you, even if you donโt work in sight or land or have a port or ship as part of your responsibility. As featured in the August 2016 print issue of Professional Security, theft of high-value vehicles from the UK has become an organised and international business, with cars in one piece or stripped for their parts sent to Africa, with paperwork.
Former CIA man Michael McNicholas has written a long book, only he has so much ground to cover: documentation for cargo, the regulations that ports and shipping are working to (including Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, C-TPAT and ISPS that came in after the 9-11 attacks on the United States). McNicholas therefore is well into the book before he reaches what he calls the โperils of the seasโ, such as pirates and stowaways; drug smuggling; and the โtargeting and usage of commercial ships and ports by terrorists and transnational criminalsโ, which prompted the efforts for international security after 9-11. As for cyber, McNicholas notes that such attacks generally have been increasing in number and sophistication, to steal data and harm physical machinery; big ships, such as those carrying oil and gas, are he admits particularly vulnerable. Given that the maritime sector thanks to its IT security ignorance makes an easy target, you might ask why maritime has not suffered a high-profile hacking yet. As for threat mitigation, McNicholas talks among other things of risk management, while admitting itโs very hard to assess what the real risks are; and the โintelligence cycleโ, based on the CIAโs model.
