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The October edition of the MAST Risk Report looks at four areas where risk is often misread, from cyber behaviour in the office to the welfare of crews at sea.

• The person is not the problem. Andrew Clarke MSc FCMI, CEO of Recyber, on rethinking responsibility for behavioural cyber risk.
• The promise and peril of Magnitsky-style regimes. Toby Cadman, Head of Chambers at Outline Chambers, on what targeted human rights sanctions have become a decade on.
• One scale for hybrid threats. James Davies, Founder and CEO of Sentinella Global, on reading five Mediterranean threats against one method, from the bridge to the boardroom.
• The crew remembers. Does the industry? Dr Jessica Simonds of Rabdan Academy, UAE, on why the welfare lessons of the first piracy era must not be lost.

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MAST Risk Report: October 2026