New Five Part Series | Episode 1: Quiet Drift – The Invisible Cyber Risk at Sea
Modern ships rarely fail in dramatic fashion. Instead, they drift.
In this first episode of a special five-part Maritime Risk Podcast miniseries, Captain Thomas Brown is joined by Andrew Sallay, Co-Founder and CEO of Cequra, to explore how vessels can gradually accumulate hidden cyber and operational fragility without any single alarm bell sounding.
From vendor remote access and GNSS interference to “workarounds” becoming standard practice, this episode reframes maritime cyber risk beyond Hollywood-style attacks. Instead, it examines the quiet erosion of resilience that occurs when digitization, connectivity, and operational pressure intersect.
This conversation sets the foundation for the series, exploring:
- How ships drift into heightened risk environments
- Why experienced crews can unintentionally mask deeper fragility
- The danger of false redundancy and hidden system coupling
- How AI and geopolitical tensions are reshaping the maritime threat landscape
This is Episode 1 of a planned five-part series with Andrew Sallay of Cequra, with further episodes rolling out over the coming months as we explore GNSS interference, operational stress events, AI-enabled risk, and practical resilience strategies for shipowners and operators.
🎧 Listen now and stay tuned for Episode 2.
About the contributors
Andrew Sallay
CEO & Co-Founder at CequraCEO & Co-Founder at Cequra, a deep-tech security company protecting mobile industrial assets from cyber-enabled physical threats.
My Background: Entrepreneur → private equity Investor/financier → maritime cybersecurity. Led offshore installations for Fortune 500s and national oil companies; raised capital across the capital structure.
My Passion: Driven to build consequential products, and to help diverse, cross-cultural teams do the best work of their careers.
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