Drawing on a timely survey of almost 500 maritime professionals and in-depth interviews with cybersecurity experts, Maritime Cyber Priority explores changing attitudes and approaches to cybersecurity. It covers the industry’s key challenges and priorities, and offers recommendations from DNV.
DNV Cyber is one of the world’s largest specialists in maritime cybersecurity, combining dedicated cybersecurity expertise with 160 years of maritime heritage and engineering best practice. We provide a range of services that ensure comprehensive cybersecurity throughout the design, construction and operation of a vessel.
The digitalization of the maritime industry is accelerating, radically enhancing the operational efficiency of ships and significantly enhancing their environmental performance. However, with critical infrastructure increasingly connected, it is also being exposed to added risk and uncertainty, increasing the necessity of robust cybersecurity.
The threat of cyber criminals and state-sponsored actors is greater than ever and shipping’s position as a vital industry at the heart of global supply chains makes it a prime target for cyber-attacks. With the operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) components of vessels increasingly interlinked and inter-dependable, attacks on these systems can be extremely impactful.
As shipping continues to make advances in digitalization, it is imperative that cybersecurity is a central priority. This means complying with regulations and ensuring that relevant mechanisms and procedures are in place from the very beginning of a vessel’s lifecycle.
Cyber-attacks represent a growing threat to the safety of the maritime industry today. We can innovate, progress, and take a lead in ensuring the resilience of our businesses and societies, but only if we truly manage cyber risk.
Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen
CEO Maritime
DNV
DNV Cyber, which operates independently from its Classification business, equips customers with robust cyber resilience across their entire organizations. Offering a comprehensive suite of advisory and managed services, DNV Cyber capitalizes on in-depth threat intelligence and 24/7 support to effectively govern, identify, prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents, in both the IT and OT domains.
DNV’s Classification business provides a range of services that ensure comprehensive cybersecurity throughout the design, construction and operation of a vessel. We provide cyber secure design and construction through our proven ‘Cyber Secure’ class notation, which has been available since 2018, ensuring compliance with the IACS URs. We also deliver type approval and product certification to equipment suppliers in accordance with IACS UR E27.
Combining security best practices with in-depth understanding of maritime operations and industrial automated control systems, we assist you in plotting your ideal cybersecurity strategy. This helps you to safeguard your assets, and embark on the next steps on your digital journey.
