The Lifecycle Dilemma: Navigating Cybersecurity Risks Across Designing, Constructing and Operating a Vessel delves into the shifting risks and disconnected approaches in cybersecurity across each stage from initial design through to its operation and maintenance.
It outlines the roles, responsibilities, challenges and misconceptions of various stakeholders at each stage of the vessel lifecycle. Thetius latest report, commissioned by CyberOwl (a DNV company) and HFW, consolidates the opinions of more than 150 stakeholders, including shipowners, charterers, OEMs, seafarers, insurers, shipyards, and other cybersecurity experts. It provides a detailed assessment of the current and anticipated cybersecurity challenges. It evaluates the industry’s responsiveness to evolving regulatory demands and technological progress, emphasising the critical need for integrated cybersecurity practices throughout the vessel lifecycle, from initial design to ongoing maintenance.
Read more…
Source: Thetius
Related:
- Maritime cyber attacks increase by 900% in three years
July 29, 2020
Cyber attacks on the maritime industry’s operational technology (OT) systems have increased by 900% over the last three years with the number of reported incidents set to reach record volumes by year end. Addressing port and terminal operators during an online forum last week, Robert Rizika, Naval Dome’s Boston-based Head of North American Operations, explained that ...
- Ships infected with ransomware, USB malware, worms
December 12, 2018
Ships suffer from the same types of cyber-security issues as other IT systems, a recent document released by the international shipping industry reveals. The document is the third edition of the “Guidelines on Cyber Security onboard Ships,” an industry-approved guide put together by a conglomerate of 21 international shipping associations and industry groups. While the document contains ...
- Ransomware Attack Cripples Cosco Shipping Network – Report
July 26, 2018
A shipping giant is likely to run up in millions of dollars of additional costs after a ransomware attack apparently crippled its US network. The attack was against COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), which is a Chinese owned shipping giant. It comes after its larger shipping rival Maersk admitted in August 2017 that its operations had been impacted by ...
- Maritime navigation hack has potential to wreak havoc in English channel
June 8, 2018
A researcher has warned that threat actors are able to compromise common maritime navigation systems to potentially cause chaos in the shipping industry. As reported by the BBC, security researcher Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners has discovered that a ship navigation system called the Electronic Chart Display (Ecdis) can be compromised, potentially to disasterous effect Read more… Source: ...
- Gold Galleon Hacking Group Plunders Shipping Industry
April 18, 2018
Researchers have identified the hacking group behind several widescale business email compromise (BEC) attacks gouging the maritime shipping industry millions of dollars since last year. Attackers are taking advantage of the industry’s lax security and the use of outdated computers, according to a report released here at the RSA Conference Wednesday. Researchers from the Dell SecureWorks Counter ...
- IT ‘heroes’ saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation bliz
January 25, 2018
4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs and 2,500 apps all rebuilt, while other staff went manual It’s long been known that shipping giant Maersk suffered very badly from 2017’s NotPetya malware outbreak. Now the company’s chair has detailed just how many systems went down: basically all of them. Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum this week, Møller-Maersk ...