Monitoring is the backbone of good cyber risk management. If you don't know what assets you have and can't see what is happening to those assets, then you can't respond properly if they are under attack. But some fleet operators struggle to justify the budget until they better understand the volume and severity of cyber risks they're exposed to...

The initiative to produce a report on Port Community Cyber Security goes back to a meeting the authors of this paper had at the TT Club offices in London, during the 2019 edition of London International Shipping Week. At that time - September 2019 - only few people had heard of the term 'coronavirus', let alone that anyone could...

One major outcome of the intensive work in recent weeks by the IAPH's World Ports Sustainability Program Covid19 Task Force has been the very urgent need for ports to digitalize processes and data exchanges as we move towards a post-COVID19 modus operandi. This conclusion has led to IAPH organizing a industry call to action in the first week of...

AMMITEC is a non-profit scientific association, bringing together the ICT Managers of the global shipping companies and everybody else who is involved in maritime IT & Communications. It aims to promote the most efficient usage of modern Technology by "Promoting Seaworthy ICT", the relevant best practices in the global maritime sector, and the...

Knowing exactly where you're sailing and where to sail next is the most important part of a vessel's navigation which can be accomplished by the use of GPS. Yet, what happens when your GPS gets spoofed? GPS spoofing, often leading to GPS outages, causes major disruptions to the shipping industry impacting safe navigation, leading to paralyzed...

By Graham Sutherland, Senior Researcher & Consultant at Nettitude

A computer virus forced a US-regulated maritime facility offline for more than 30 hours, the country's coast guard has revealed.