Vessels Cybersecurity: Issues, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
| Autor: | Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore, Pietro Tedeschi, Roberto Di Pietro, Simone Raponi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Risk analysis Service (systems architecture) Computer Science - Cryptography and Security Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Vulnerability 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Computer security computer.software_genre Computer Science Applications Countermeasure Risk analysis (business) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) computer |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Communications Magazine. 58:90-96 |
| ISSN: | 1558-1896 0163-6804 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/mcom.001.1900632 |
| Popis: | Vessels cybersecurity is recently gaining momentum, as a result of a few recent attacks to vessels at sea. These recent attacks have shacked the maritime domain, which was thought to be relatively immune to cyber threats. The cited belief is now over, as proved by recent mandates issued by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). According to these regulations, all vessels should be the subject of a cybersecurity risk analysis, and technical controls should be adopted to mitigate the resulting risks. This initiative is laudable since, despite the recent incidents, the vulnerabilities and threats affecting modern vessels are still unclear to operating entities, leaving the potential for dreadful consequences of further attacks just a matter of "when", not "if". In this contribution, we investigate and systematize the major security weaknesses affecting systems and communication technologies adopted in modern vessels. Specifically, we describe the architecture and main features of the different systems, pointing out their main security issues, and specifying how they were exploited by attackers to cause service disruption and relevant financial losses. We also identify a few countermeasures to the introduced attacks. Finally, we highlight a few research challenges to be addressed by industry and academia to strengthen vessels security. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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