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Navigating Cybersecurity in the Maritime Industry

Securing maritime operations is critical to ensure smooth and safe shipping and logistics. Advanced cybersecurity solutions protect vessels and port infrastructure from evolving cyber threats.
Major Challenges
Outdated Equipment
Legacy systems, insecure by design and highly sensitive to network and firmware changes, were not built to withstand today’s sophisticated cyber threats. Maritime network assets use proprietary protocols that require thorough and careful analysis to detect suspicious or anomalous behavior.
Limited Visibility
Shipowners and builders often struggle with blind spots around IoT and OT devices, along with limited access to real-time operational data, which can undermine resilience. They need comprehensive contextual information on assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and anomalies to effectively prioritize and mitigate risks.
Unexpected Downtime
‍While cyberattacks make headlines, everyday issues like network or process misconfigurations, resource usage spikes, and other anomalies pose a greater threat to business operations. These issues, if not promptly investigated, can indicate either process problems or potential malicious attacks.
Strict Regulatory Requirements
Government agencies and CISOs are mandating strict cyber security measures as a security framework, putting increased pressure on teams.
Solutions powered by MicroSec
At MicroSec, we specialize on providing cyber security solutions specifically for maritime environments.

Asset Discovery

Discover all OT assets in your networks, from L0 to L4.
Leverage the MicroIDS platform to enumerate and visualize assets in various views, such as Purdue ISA 95 or the IEC 62443 zone based network map.
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Assessing Compliance

MicroIDS with its CyberAssessor functionality allows regulatory assessments of your devices & networks against standards such as E26, E27 and IEC 62443.

Detect non-compliance threats with automated assessments against industry standards. Receive compliance scores, mitigation recommendations and reports.
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Achieving Compliance

Leverage MicroSec's platforms to tick all boxes that are required by compliance frameworks.

Threat Detection

Detect and visualize threats in real-time with advanced detection mechanisms.

MicroIDS allows detection of threats (anomalies, malware, vulnerabilities, non-compliance) with one of its many analyzers: ML based, rule-based, CVE vulnerability scan based.

Threat detection works for Ethernet & non-Ethernet devices.
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Zero Trust

Protect your networks and services by enabling zero trust through post-quantum safe certificates distribution to all your devices. LCMS Certificate Authority (CA) serves as your root of trust.
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Supply Chain Security

Protect and verify all suppliers. LCMS secures updates to devices (e.g. firmware, application payloads, software packages, etc.) with Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA).

LCMS permits updates to devices only if certificates by authorized signers, roles and process are met.
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Embedded Security

Protect and defend even the smallest devices with MicroSec's MicroAgent, an all-in-one protection & monitoring software that can be installed on all types of devices, including resource constrained ones such as microcontrollers or bare metal IoT devices.
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The MicroSec Platforms

MicroSec offers two platforms:
Protection Suite to secure your IoT devices & network end-to-end and Monitoring Suite to detect & stop threats on your assets instantly.

Protection Suite

LCMS


Protect and manage all of your devices and networks with advanced cybersecurity device management capabilities & lightweight PKI

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Monitoring Suite

MicroIDS


Assess and guard your devices and networks against zero day attacks with ML anomaly detection and instant remediation

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Case Study

Ensuring Cyber Resilience of Maritime Vessels

Challenge

The maritime industry faces growing cybersecurity risks due to increased connectivity and integration of advanced technologies. With the impending IACS' Unified Requirements E26 standard, robust and adaptable cybersecurity measures are crucial for new construction vessels and existing fleets.

Pacific Carriers Ltd (PCL) operates a fleet of over 60 vessels, including several newbuilds where compliance with the latest cybersecurity standards is essential.

The challenges include:

  • Compliance with the IACS E26 standard for new construction vessels from July 2024.
  • Overcoming the inefficiencies of traditional cyber assessments, which are slow and error-prone.
  • ‍Developing a scalable cybersecurity solution adaptable to different ship types and maritime operations.
  • Maintaining a complete inventory of computer-based systems across various vessel types.
  • Enforcing security through zoned architectures and real-time network monitoring.

Solution

MicroSec addresses these challenges by deploying MicroIDS for the regulatory compliance, network visualization, and real-time threat detection.

Key features include:

  1. Comprehensive Inventory & Network Visualization: Clear view of all connected devices, including OT and IoT systems.
  2. Regulatory Compliance Assessment Module: Automating compliance checks with UR E26, IMO 428(98), and IEC 62443, providing detailed reports and 3. recommendations.
  3. Real-time Threat Detection: Using ML, rule-based analysis, and CVE vulnerability scans to detect and visualize threats, providing real-time alerts.
Let’s have a chat to discuss your requirements and how MicroSec can start securing, protecting, and managing your devices and networks end-to-end today.
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