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Objective (1 September 2016)

These Guidance Notes provide cybersecurity best practices and recommendations to marine and offshore organizations, and they are intended to enable members of the marine and offshore communities to take verifiable steps to protect an asset, its cyber-connected systems, its personnel, and its information from cyber intrusions. The overarching ABS cybersecurity guidance program provides these Guidance Notes within the overall program context of ABS CyberSafety™.

The principal objective of this document is to support the ABS Guide for Cybersecurity Implementation for the Marine and Offshore Operations - ABS CyberSafety™ Volume 2 by providing a readable summary of the practices needed for CyberSafety. The best practices in these Guidance Notes provide the basis for the reader to understand the specifications, and the subsequent requirements, within each of the Capabilities listed in this document. In that way, Volume 1 serves as an introductory document for the more detailed Volume 2.