Determining Maritime Cyber Security Dynamics and Development of Maritime Cyber Risk Check List for Ships

Abstract

The digitalization in maritime industry rises integration of the information and operational technologies on the vessels. The high level of connectivity and the rising of digitalization in maritime sector increase the cyber security issue. The systems of vessels can be exposed to errors of digital world and encounter some malicious attacks. At this point, cyber security in maritime sector is an important topic in terms of not only securing the systems, preventing the accidents, loss of life, and damage to the environment but also national security, and global economy. Accordingly, in the context of IAMU 2022 Research Project for Young Academic Staff, it is aimed to determine maritime cyber security dynamics based on informational technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) for ships, dynamics affecting any breaches in the scope of maritime cyber security in marine insurance, and liabilities, responsibilities, rules and enforcements in the scope of maritime law. Thus, it is aimed to develop maritime cyber risk check list for ships by performing maritime cyber risk management with the help of these dynamics in the project. In this context, in this paper, the issues of maritime cyber security on the perspective of maritime cyber risk and maritime cyber insurance and suggestions on solutions of them is only tried to be emerged for creating an infrastructure of the project.