FACTORS AFFECTING THE CYBERSECURITY ADOPTION AMONG PLAYERS OF THE MARITIME INDUSTRY, MALAYSIA

Cybersecurity has become a crucial concern in the maritime industry due to numerous cases of notorious cyberattacks that happened in the past which caused major financial losses and the theft of organizations confidential information. This research investigates the factors encouraging cybersecurity readiness among the players in the maritime industry in Malaysia. Based on 384 responses from maritime and logistics industry in Malaysia using SPSS software to analyse data would identify the organization and environment context can become the factors encouraging the cybersecurity readiness in maritime industry in Malaysia. The finding from the statistical results shows the organizational and environmental context are the factors that affected the cybersecurity readiness in maritime industry in Malaysia.