The threat of cyberattacks on the trucking industry is serious, especially when you consider how quickly the industry is catching up after years of being behind the times on digitization. That’s why the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA)™ has been so vigilant in recent years about researching, reporting, and offering guidance to the industry on the nature of current trends.
In October 2023, we held our annual Digital Solutions Conference on Cybersecurity, which brought together the nation’s leading experts from the transportation, security, and law enforcement communities to get everyone up to speed on the latest. They left that gathering in Houston, TX as current as anyone in the nation about the threats – and preventive strategies – to cybersecurity in trucking.
And as we look to 2024, we have to acknowledge something: If all you know is what we told you in 2023, you don’t know much.
That’s because no matter how comprehensive a job we do at presenting the reality of cyberthreats to the industry, they change in an instant. It’s the nature of a realm that combines quickly moving technology with bad guys who are constantly innovating.
They read our blogs, too. They read our columns in CCJ. They know exactly what we’ve figured out about how to stop them. So, they’re working on the next generation of ransomware attacks, phishing schemes, and denial-of-service attacks. They’re devising ways to use AI to generate deceptions and worm their way into enterprise systems. And they’re investing in new technology to help them do it all.
This is the nature of cyberthreats. They constantly evolve and become more challenging. So, it’s not enough to rest on what we shared with the industry last year. And there are nine months until our next cybersecurity conference.
That’s why NMFTA has written and released its 2024 Trucking Cybersecurity Trends Report. We are urging everyone in the trucking industry to read it.
