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What do you do if a hacker takes over your ship?

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What do you do if a hacker takes over your ship?
The ship is not behaving as it should. What’s up? Captain Odd Sveinung Hareide explains to the others on the bridge what he has done, what he is prioritizing right now and the next move. Credit: Eli Anne Tvergrov, NTNU

You’re on the bridge, with the ship’s course shown on the digital display. But why is the ship continuing to turn west?

Everything looks normal on the computer screens in the dark wheelhouse—but outside, the land is dangerously close. What’s going on?

Down in the engine room, workers report via radio that everything is normal, but they wonder why the bridge has changed course. The engines are revving and the ship is picking up speed. The engine room hasn’t done this. What now?

Cybersecurity is a hot topic for the entire maritime industry, as well as in academia. A joint team recently conducted a completely new cyber security course at NTNU in Ålesund.

Probably the first of its kind

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Ålesund’s program for the maritime industry has just offered a new course entitled “Maritime digital security” (in Norwegian).

Over two months, course participants have looked at digital threats. They have assessed the risk of existing digital threats and realistically practiced a cyber attack on a ship under way. The key focus is on risk management of cyber attacks and building resilience.

“Where information technology and people meet, there is room for digital vulnerability. Security breaches can come in through the ship’s systems and through the port system and through the people who operate or supervise them,” Marie Haugli-Sandvik and Erlend Erstad said.

Both are Ph.D. candidates at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering at NTNU. They are studying how the maritime industry can be better equipped to handle cyber attacks.

The two Ph.D. candidates have developed and now run the maritime digital security course, which appears to be the first of its kind in Norway.

The course has been included as part of the doctoral…

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Smart Ship© Hub , Singapore headquartered B2B (SaaS) Maritime digital platform raises pre series round of $ 2.5M led by Ideaspring Capital and StartupXseed ventures

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Smart Ship Hub(SSH) is a ready to deploy digital platform for global maritime logistics. SSH is disrupting the maritime industry the way avionics did in airline industry. Cloud based and on demand, SSH provides “unified platform and a single source of truth” for Ship owners, Ship Operators, Charter Parties, maritime insurers, Port authorities. The platform caters for merchant ships, naval ships, oil rigs, river going barges and fishing vessels.

Left to right, Prashant, Head Delivery, Joy Basu (CEO), Vikram, CTO
Left to right, Prashant, Head Delivery, Joy Basu (CEO), Vikram, CTO

Global maritime , despite being the largest mode of transport suffers from operational inefficiencies, lack of visibility, transparency leading to commercial leakages. Ship owners, operators, chartering agencies, insurance companies are now focussed on technology backed smarter processes to ensure “High vessel uptime , Sea worthiness and Predictability” with digital systems.

SSH’s “ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship” based management of fleet using smart sensors, IOT, big data is saving substantial operational costs while enhancing voyage efficiencies . The digital platform is helping predict possible machinery down time, malfunctioning, identify performance deviations, vessel routes to improve voyage and vessel performance. SSH’s ” Marine Insights ” is a unique maritime big data platform providing actionable intelligence, smart alerts and performance advisory for entire fleet using millions of records.

SSH’s global customers are able to achieve their target of ” minimal breakdown maintenance”, “optimum fuel utilization”, “staying in total compliance including for emissions”, ” optimize costs with condition based maintenance” and a much higher level of ” voyage control” . “Performance Advisory” feature is reducing number of incidents for these ships while saving maintenance and fuel costs . Future ready maritime companies are helping in creation of a connected ecosystem: connected ships,  shared services (routes, capacity, procurement) and “pay per use” model with SSH digital.

Joy Basu , Founder of Smart Ship Hub adds: “Digital platforms will play a fundamental role in disrupting maritime legacy processes. Inefficient…

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CBP Expands Facial Biometrics to Mobile, Alabama Cruise Ship Terminal

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with Carnival Cruise Line, expanded the use of facial biometrics into the debarkation process at the Port of Mobile, AL, becoming the latest seaport to modernize efforts to revolutionize cruise travel.

 “As we prepare for the increase in cruise travel around our nation’s ports, CBP is working closely with the cruise industry to make travel safer and more efficient, while also supporting travel recovery efforts,” said Steven Stavinoha, Director, Field Operations for CBP’s Gulf Coast Field Office. “The biometric facial comparison process adds an extra layer of security and streamlines travel into the United States by replacing the manual inspection of travel documents with a secure, touchless process.”

 When debarking the cruise vessel at a U.S. seaport, passengers will pause for a photo that will be compared to the traveler’s existing passport or visa photo in secure DHS systems to biometrically verify their identity. Upon an efficient match, passengers are allowed to proceed through inspections and exit the terminal. This innovative entry process further secures and enhances the customer experience while protecting the privacy of all travelers. The enhanced arrival process using facial biometrics verifies the traveler’s identity within two seconds and is more than 98% accurate.

U.S. travelers and select foreign nationals who are not required to provide biometrics and wish to opt out of the new biometric process can simply request a manual document check from a CBP Officer consistent with existing requirements for admission into the United States.

Already in use at major air and land ports of entry, facial biometrics in the cruise environment will strengthen CBP’s enforcement capabilities at several of the nation’s cruise ports while also enhancing the customer experience. Additionally, CBP and its cruise partners have expanded data sharing agreements to further strengthen security in cruise travel.

passenger approaches the biometric facial comparison machine while Carnival Cruise Line employee stands nearby
Passenger approaches the biometric facial comparison
machine while Carnival Cruise Line employee stands nearby

To date, facial biometric comparison technology is available at 13 seaports…

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Chinese spy ship collected sensitive electronic data off Australian coast

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A Chinese spy ship spent three weeks off the coast of Australia in August and September collecting sensitive electronic data coming from some of the nation’s most important military facilities according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.

Federal Political Editor Daily Telegraph James Morrow said what’s really interesting is it came down when there were no military exercises being run.

“This ship is equipped with incredibly sensitive technology, antennas, all sorts of equipment for basically scooping up electronic communications, figuring out what’s going on,” he said on 6PR Breakfast.

“You can only think that this was coming down to probe the electronic side of our civilian and military capability … so that in a future conflict they would have an advantage over us, in both the interception of intelligence but also cyber warfare and being able to take our systems offline.”

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