MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

CRITICAL MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

Critical maritime infrastructure is under threat. Submarine cables, pipelines and offshore rigs face escalating risks, jeopardizing global communication, energy stability, and security. Windward’s AI-powered solution delivers real-time monitoring, behavioral analysis, and automated monitoring to safeguard these vital lifelines.

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YOUR COMPLETE SOLUTION FOR SAFEGUARDING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Safeguarding critical undersea and offshore infrastructure demands timely, proactive action from both operators and security organizations. Windward’s Critical Maritime Infrastructure Protection uniquely delivers real-time monitoring around precise cable locations, an industry-leading catalog of suspicious vessels, and advanced behavioral pattern detection – enabling you to identify, anticipate, and mitigate threats before they escalate.

Proactively avoid unnecessary risk by leveraging historical data, behavioral patterns, and predictive analytics to detect threats around the underwater and offshore infrastructure you care about.

Receive alerts in real-time on risky vessels and vessels of interest entering a monitored area, or conducting suspicious activity in proximity to critical underwater and offshore infrastructure.

Post-incident, investigate vessel movements and activities in the area to identify suspects, detect risky patterns, and enact protective measures.

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PROTECT EVERY MARITIME ASSET, EVERYWHERE

Policy and regulation agencies
National defense and intelligence organizations
Marine regulation bodies
Coast guards
Navies
Underwater security and monitoring companies
Telecom companies
Oil and gas operators
Energy companies
Policy and regulation agencies
National defense and intelligence organizations
Marine regulation bodies
Coast guards
Navies
Underwater security and monitoring companies
Telecom companies
Oil and gas operators
Energy companies

OPEN OR SHALLOW-WATER OPERATIONS – YOU’RE COVERED

OPEN-WATER OPERATIONS

Open-Water Operations

OPEN-WATER OPERATIONS

Open-water (also called deep-sea) operations typically involve governmental service vessels, often research or survey ships. These missions are characterized by slow-speed activities, because they require the deployment of equipment to depths of hundreds of meters.

The primary objective is generally not to cause damage, such as severing undersea cables, but rather intelligence gathering or adversarial research. Windward’s search engine detects these “research” activities and identifies the entities conducting them, as well as affiliated vessels and regimes.

SHALLOW-WATER OPERATIONS

Shallow-Water Operations

SHALLOW-WATER OPERATIONS

Shallow-water operations represent a newer and more aggressive method explicitly aimed at damaging undersea infrastructure. This approach involves dragging heavy equipment, commonly an anchor, across the seabed to physically harm the cables. Unlike deep-sea missions, shallow-water operations are deliberate acts of sabotage. Windward empowers you to monitor areas of interest and automatically sends alerts on vessels from risky populations crossing or approaching your cables.

OFF-SHORE OPERATIONS

Off-Shore Operations

OFF-SHORE OPERATIONS

Offshore energy and industrial assets – such as oil rigs, wind farms, and floating production platforms – are vital to global energy supply and economic stability. Windward’s Maritime AI™ enhances the security of these critical sites by detecting unauthorized or suspicious vessel activity in real time, including vessels near or approaching the assets. Using predictive intelligence and deep behavioral analysis, our solution enables proactive threat mitigation, helping stakeholders safeguard essential operations against illicit activities and disruptions.

END-TO-END MONITORING WITH REMOTE SENSING INTELLIGENCE

Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence provides continuous visibility over your global cable network by integrating multi-sensor satellite data (EO, SAR, RF) with AI-driven behavioral analytics.

The result: early detection of potential threats, real-time tracking of vessel activity, and fast, evidence-based investigation when incidents occur.

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ADVANCED AI-BASED PROTECTION

Automatic 24/7 data collection & fusion | Customized media feed | Gen AI virtual analyst and subject matter expert

Search

SEARCH

Identify suspicious vessels visiting or loitering near your critical undersea and offshore assets.

Detect

DETECT

Receive notifications on behavioral anomalies, real-time risk assessments, and media feed alerts for relevant incidents.

Customize

CUSTOMIZE

Configure the risk level you are comfortable with for specific vessels and/or activities near your critical assets.

Investigate

INVESTIGATE

Gain immediate insight into vessels with Gen AI-generated vessel screening reports from MAI Expert™, Windward’s virtual subject matter expert.

Windward’s new Early Detection solution flags anomalies and shifting trends globally, or within predefined areas. This includes intentional sabotage, or tampering with critical undersea and offshore infrastructure.

Early Detection flagged 50 anomalies in the Baltic Sea in the 30 days before the C-Lion1 cable sabotage (November 2024). Do you want to anticipate the next sabotage attempt and act before it happens?

THE IMPORTANCE

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

Windward’s Critical Maritime Infrastructure Protection solution is an AI-powered maritime intelligence capability designed to safeguard submarine cables, pipelines, offshore platforms, and other sensitive underwater and offshore assets. It combines real-time vessel monitoring, behavioral analysis, predictive risk detection, and remote sensing intelligence to identify, assess, and mitigate threats before damage occurs. The solution provides continuous, explainable visibility around exact asset locations, enabling operators and security organizations to move from reactive monitoring to proactive protection.

Windward detects a wide range of threats targeting critical underwater and offshore infrastructure, including loitering vessels, unauthorized approaches, dark activity, GPS manipulation, suspicious seabed interaction, and covert surveying or construction. These insights help protect submarine cables, pipelines, offshore platforms, and energy assets from interference, espionage, or sabotage.

Using AI-powered behavioral models and proximity analysis, Windward evaluates vessel movement patterns, speed, loitering, and operational context near defined cable routes and offshore assets. This enables early detection of anomalies such as repeated close passes, slow-speed maneuvering, or unexpected activity inconsistent with legitimate maritime operations.

By combining behavioral analytics, vessel classification, speed profiles, and activity context, Windward distinguishes deliberate shallow-water interference, such as anchor dragging or cable contact, from deep-sea intelligence or research operations typically characterized by slow, methodical movement and specialized vessel types. This differentiation helps teams assess intent, severity, and response priority accurately.

Each alert includes vessel identity, ownership context, detected behavior, proximity to the asset, and a clear risk rationale. Alerts are enriched with explainable intelligence and can be integrated into command-and-control systems or operational workflows, allowing security teams to respond quickly with confidence.

Every event is logged with a time-stamped behavioral and positional timeline, enabling detailed post-incident analysis. Teams can replay vessel movements, examine historical patterns near the asset, and generate defensible investigation records to support enforcement, intelligence assessments, or stakeholder reporting.

Yes. Users can define precise monitoring zones around cable routes or offshore assets and configure alerts by threat type, vessel population, behavior threshold, or risk level, ensuring focus on the activity that matters most while minimizing noise.

Windward integrates Remote Sensing Intelligence directly into infrastructure protection workflows to verify, attribute, and investigate risk at sea. Satellite imagery and RF data are used to visually confirm vessel presence, detect AIS-dark or non-cooperative activity, and validate proximity or interaction with underwater and offshore assets. Combined with behavioral analytics, remote sensing turns alerts into evidence-backed assessments, supporting early warning, investigation, and defensible response around critical infrastructure.

Yes. Windward’s predictive and early detection models identify emerging risk signals – such as changes in vessel behavior, repeated presence by risky populations, or abnormal activity trends – before incidents escalate into physical damage or disruption.

Absolutely. Windward supports telecom operators, energy companies, infrastructure owners, navies, coast guards, and national security organizations responsible for protecting submarine cables, pipelines, offshore platforms, and strategic maritime zones.

Unlike static surveillance or sensor-based monitoring, Windward combines real-time maritime data, behavioral AI, predictive analytics, and explainable alerts. This delivers a dynamic, intelligence-led view of risk, helping organizations move from passive monitoring to proactive protection of critical underwater and offshore assets.

PROTECT YOUR MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE