The Security Value of Small and Medium Sized Ports in a Supply Chain Service

This study focuses on explaining key concepts about ports, their characteristics (e.g., size, operational field, infrastruc-ture), potential threats (e.g., interception of sensitive infor-mation, illegal access, terrorism) and attacks (cyber, physi-cal and/or combined), providing an overview of port risk analysis. It also focuses on recording the characteristics of port facilities to document the requirements in small and medium sized ports (SMPs), which act as Supply Chain Service (SCS) providers and/or business partners (BPs). Finally, three attack scenarios are described based on different types of threats, which could cause particularly problematic effects, even paralyzing an entire port and by extension the entire region that benefits from or depends on it.