Port Canaveral gets $1.4m US cyber security grant

The Canaveral Port Authority has been awarded a total of $1.39m in federal and state funding to help strengthen its security operations.

The Florida port will receive $1.1m in federal grant funding from the Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

It has also been given $288,000 in state-supported port security grant funding from the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development programme.