Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 251

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 16K
Chunk 251
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secure

source

of

truth

for

our

operations,
strengthening the quality and integrity

of company’s informational assets. The

Data Management Platform
was

integrated

with

our

core

systems

and

implementation

of

key

reports

was

initiated

within

2024,
delivering several

new Financial

Reports that

will enable

better,

faster and

more accurate

monitoring of
Company activities

and improve decision

making and

productivity.

This transition is

further strengthened
with the digital upskilling of relevant personnel, enabling the proper and secure use of information assets.
We

are

committed

to

enhance

and

enrich

our

operational

excellence

through

our

external

3rd

parties’
inspections and audits (PSC-Vetting inspections Audits). We openly

share our results and “lessons

learnt”
within the industry and organizations, we compare and

benchmark our performance and we continuously
improve our safety footprint.

Governance

Our board of directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated
the day-to-day oversight

of cybersecurity and

other technology risks

to the Cyber

Security Officer, who has
11 years of specialized information security experience.

This

experience

includes

serving

as

Cyber

Security

Officer

at

Diana

Shipping

Services,

Information
Security

Officer

at

Viva

Wallet,

Senior

IT

Auditor

at

First

Data

Corporation

focusing

on

EMEA

region
security

audits,

and

IT

Auditor/Security

Consultant

at

Deloitte's

Enterprise

Risk

Services.

The

Cyber
Security

Officer

holds

CISA

and

CDPSE

certifications

from

ISACA,

completed

Information

Security
Management

Systems

(ISMS)

Auditor/Lead

Auditor

Training

in

accordance

with

ISO

27001:2013,

and
possesses an MSc in Digital Systems Security from the University

of Piraeus.
The Cyber

Security Officer

is
responsible
for assessing,

managing and

mitigating cybersecurity

threats and
for

reporting

cybersecurity

updates,

including

updates

on

monitoring

strategies

and