“When all the Cruise lines get going, with more ships involved the ransomware scammers will have a better chance of quick payoffs to them from the Lines,to keep the cruise lines going ,so they don’t fall behind their cruise ship competitors.-Tom”
Cruise lines should simply their activities. You are on a ship. The ship goes to several places and then returns to its home port. From past experiences, the cruise line knows how much food to bring on board, how much waste will be generated and disposed of and what activities are planned. Weather can be transmitted to the ship from shore.
Unless the ransomware is attacking critical systems like ballast, what do you really need IT Systems for? And I am an IT guy.
IMHO the problem is disrupting the communications between the passengers and travel agents and the cruise line. -Tom
Cruise lines, like nearly every other segment of industry and commerce, have become utterly dependent on computer systems to automate and run things. And as a result, things grew so big that it became impossible to run them manually.
The IT systems are as necessary now, at that huge scale, as wings on an aircraft. It's a terribly dependent situation, and one which was predicted long ago. They could have avoided it, but greed rules.
They made their bed, now they must keep it from catching fire over and over.
(And I, too, am an IT guy.)