Look-Out 2016Maritime Domain Cyber: Risks, Threats & Future Perspectives
Dennis Göge, Hans-Christof Enge · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2015
The German maritime sector is traditionally important to the German economy.In order to maintain our lead what is a highly competitive market, we now need to focus on research and development activities.As a major exporter, Germany needs maritime safety and security that it can rely on.Given the increasing role that information technology is playing in the maritime sector, we are now facing the threat of cyber-attacks on maritime infrastructure.According to feedback from both government and industry, awareness about cyber security in the maritime sector has been comparatively low since this first became an issue over two decades ago.The strengths of the shipping and maritime industries are based on many years of experience and on their capacity to reliably perform central tasks: ensuring that seafaring is safe and secure, serving offshore platforms, and transporting persons and goods in order to support passenger traffic and global supply chains.For a number of different reasons, the development cycles for upgrading critical communication, navigation and operational components on, for example, bridges and infrastructure are slower than in certain other industrial sectors.However, now that the maritime sector has begun to make use of information technology and automation processes, this situation has begun to change.