Assessing cyber challenges of maritime navigation

Androjna, Andrej (author), Brcko, Tanja (author), Pavic, Ivica (author), Greidanus, Harm (author)

This paper provides a close investigation into the landscape of both cyber threats and actual incidents in the maritime sector, identifying the cyber trends and challenges as they relate to safe navigation and marine shipping. As an important subset of cyber threats that impact many maritime systems, the vulnerabilities of satellite navigation systems, in particular the Global Positioning System (GPS), receive special attention. For this article, a systematic literature review was conducted, complemented by the research and analysis of a specific spoofing event. Analyzing available resources, we might summarize that a shift in mind-set is essential to direct more attention and resources toward cybersecurity as well as the necessity for manufacturers to improve the cybersecurity of their products, as shipping systems currently remain vulnerable to cybercriminals. There is a need for multiple positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems onboard maritime vessels to complement GPS-only navigation. The use of multiple satellite navigation constellations, public as well as private, in combination with the terrestrial components of an enhanced LOng-RAnge Navigation (eLoran) system and ports' laser-based aid system for berthing and docking should provide the shipping industry with the direly needed increased protection from cyber-attackers for the foreseeable future.

• Language: English
• Keywords: maritime cyber, cybersecurity, safety of navigation, shipboard systems, GPS jamming, GPS spoofing
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FPP - Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 21 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 8, iss. 10, art. 776
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134458
• UDC: 656.6:004.056
• ISSN on article: 2077-1312
• DOI: 10.3390/jmse8100776
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32553731
• Publication date in RUL: 17.01.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of marine science and engineering
• Shortened title: J. mar. sci. eng.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2077-1312
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523219993

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 03.10.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: pomorstvo, kibernetska varnost, spletna varnost, varnost plovbe, ladijski sistemi, motenje signalov, GPS

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0394
• Name: Modeliranje in simulacije v prometu in pomorstvu