Why 50,000 ships are so vulnerable to cyberattacks

The Conversation  June 13, 2018
The maritime industry has been slow to realize that ships, just like everything else, are now part of cyberspace. There are several core issues that make cybersecurity for the maritime industry particularly challenging to address. There are many different classes of vessel, all of which operate in very different environments; the users of these maritime computer systems are constantly in flux; the complexity is the linkage between onboard and terrestrial systems. In 2017, the IMO amended two of their general security management codes to explicitly include cybersecurity…read more.