Maritime safety management in Venezuela against cyber threats in the Risk Society

Abstract

From the Maritime Safety Committee No. 98 of the International Maritime Organization, emerged the resolution MSC.428(98) on Maritime Cyber Risk Management in Safety Management Systems in correspondence with the MSC-FAL.1-Circ.3: Guidelines on Maritime Cyber Risk Management; the purpose is to contribute to the generation of standards to mitigate cyber risks and threats to which maritime security is exposed in worldwide, generating transformations in the usual way of managing within the context of complex threat related to this security level. The member States of this multilateral organization have fostered the need to implement these measures to mitigate the risks to which the ship-port interface is exposed during the commercial process. In the Venezuelan reality there are aspects that account for a regulatory absence and high misinformation in the institutions related to the sector. The objective of this investigation is to configure the theoretical elements of maritime security management in Venezuela as part of the risk society in the context of cybersecurity. Qualitative content analysis is the research technique used to analyze secondary data extracted from 8 texts. This technique allowed the construction of three categories as notions that allowed grouping the elements with common characteristics according to their nature and content. The results show that there are disruptive aspects in the management of public institutions and private sector companies in the adaptation of prescribed standards.