Town Hall Webinar
Coast Guard Compliance Countdown: Developing Your Cybersecurity Plan Before the Window Closes
Join Cliff Neve, VP of Maritime Cybersecurity at MAD Security, for a practical, workshop-style session designed to help ports, terminals, and vessel operators close remaining gaps and finalize their Coast Guard cybersecurity plan before enforcement pressure increases.
We are now 9 months post–Coast Guard cybersecurity rule, and informal grace periods are shrinking. This is not a high-level overview or a compliance sales pitch. We’ll walk through a 90-day, end-of-Q1-to-Q2 framework for building, validating, or correcting your Coast Guard Cybersecurity Plan—focusing on what inspectors expect, what documentation matters, and where organizations are still getting tripped up.
“Many organizations assumed they had more time. As we move deeper into 2026, that margin is disappearing. This session is about helping maritime operators understand where they stand right now and giving them a clear, realistic path to compliance before inspections and incidents force the issue.”
— Cliff Neve
AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS
- What Coast Guard inspectors expect now — and how expectations have tightened
- A 90-day compliance roadmap to move from partial readiness to defensible compliance
- The most common gaps we’re seeing 9 months post-rule
- Required plan components: roles, access control, incident response, recovery
- How tabletops, documentation, and evidence support inspections and audits
Why Attend
✅ Address shrinking grace periods: Understand what “reasonable progress” looks like now.
✅ Identify blind spots: Spot gaps that inspections and incidents are exposing.
✅ Move from awareness to action: Turn compliance pressure into an executable plan.
✅ Stay inspection-ready: Align cybersecurity, operations, and security roles before the next review.
What to Expect
- 35 minutes of plain-English, workshop-style guidance — no fluff, no scare tactics
- A practical compliance framework you can adapt immediately
- Real examples of where maritime organizations are struggling — and succeeding
- Clear next steps you can assign to FSOs, CySOs, IT, OT, and operations teams
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