Marcus Hale

Marcus Hale has spent the last three decades in the trenches of cybersecurity, from hands-on incident response to expert witness testimony to helping organizations navigate CMMC, SOC2, and HIPAA. He has advised thousands of businesses on securing their data and maintains a zero-breach record among clients who actually follow his guidance.

At ShipboardAI, Marcus owns the security and compliance posture of every deployment. On-vessel AI introduces a threat model most maritime operators have never had to think about: hardened compute stacks in physically insecure environments, sensitive guest data processed entirely on a moving platform, and no IT department down the hall when something goes sideways at 3am off the coast of Corsica.

Marcus writes about the problems that make general counsels nervous. Data privacy for luxury charter operators. Ransomware response when your only connectivity is a degraded VSAT link. Supply chain risk in marine IT procurement. The unglamorous security work that separates a real deployment from a demo.