Cyberthreats to the Shipping Industry and how to mitigate them

When thinking about cybersecurity or cyberthreats, most people will have in mind server rooms
full of blinking lights, SOCs where network operations are monitored by cyber teams or evil hackers wearing a black sweater trying to break into some kind of hi-tech datacenter. Nobody would ever think about one of the thousands of bulky, low-tech and sometimes rusty merchant vessels sailing around the globe.
Actually, cyberthreats to the shipping industry are a growing cause for concern of which operators are becoming more and more aware every day of the cyber risks costs and regulatory frameworks trying to define policies and guidelines to increase the cyber resilience of vessels. When we think that 90% of the goods are now traded by sea, and we have a look to the increasing number of cyber incidents involving merchant ships and their actual or potential consequences, the compelling need of effective and efficient solutions for making current and future ships cyber resilient is more than evident. Here, after presenting current trends of the Shipping Industry’s cybersecurity, the role of Cross Domain Solutions as an answer to this need is being analyzed.

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