Protect your critical undersea infrastructure with continuous, all-source intelligence-led monitoring. Windward helps transmission system operators (TSOs) maintain visibility over their cable networks, spot anomalous vessel behavior early, and meet regulatory obligations without costly disruption.
Windward’s maritime intelligence toolkit covers every stage of your resilience cycle, from prevention and detection to response and repair. Always built around your organization’s unique risk requirements. Identify and proactively manage threats from shadow fleet vessels, fishing trawlers, military-affiliated vessels, and traffic rerouting.
See every cable corridor environment, and track how it’s changing over time. Windward gives you a complete, continuously updated picture of your grid network, so you can prioritize maintenance, plan new routes, and reduce your regulatory exposure.
See risk before it becomes an incident. Windward continuously screens vessel activity around your submarine cables and interconnectors, profiling and flagging vessels that loiter, anchor, or interfere so your team is proactively alerted to threats, before they escalate.
Move from incident to answers, fast. When a submarine cable is disrupted, Windward reconstructs the vessel activity and context behind it, delivering evidence-backed reporting to identify responsible parties and support legal claims.
Get continuous, purpose-built protection for your submarine cables and offshore power assets. Windward maps your infrastructure and fuses it with vessel risk profiling and continuous monitoring, so reckless or abnormal behavior near your assets is flagged early enough to act on.
Dispatching a maintenance crew only to find the area GPS jammed and the cable untraceable is costly and slow. Windward’s active GPS jamming map shows you exactly where interference is happening, updated within the hour, so operators can assess conditions before dispatching.
Vessels that disable their AIS near your cables don’t disappear from Windward’s picture. Remote Sensing Intelligence fuses multi-sensor satellite coverage – EO, SAR, and RF – to detect vessels even when they’ve gone dark. If an incident occurs, the imagery is your evidence: timestamped proof of who was at the scene and when.
What causes most submarine cable damage?
Most cable damage is accidental. The International Cable Protection Committee records roughly 200 faults a year globally, up to 80% caused by fishing gear and anchor drag, and under 1% deliberate. With median repair time near 40 days, Windward gives operators a continuously updated picture of vessel traffic across their cable corridors so they can prioritize maintenance and plan new routes around real exposure.
Are Baltic Sea cable incidents sabotage or accidents?
At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged since October 2023, in incidents traced to vessels including EAGLE S and FITBURG, which dragged their anchor across two Finland-Estonia telecoms cables on December 31, 2025. By mid-2026, European officials leaned toward a determination of accidental causes. Windward monitors for both, because the detection requirement is identical.
What does the CER Directive require of transmission system operators?
EU member states designated critical entities by July 17, 2026, and TSOs and submarine cable operators fall in scope. Designated entities have nine months to complete a risk assessment and until May 2027 to demonstrate compliance. Proposed NIS2 amendments would add submarine cable operators as essential entities. Windward’s continuous monitoring helps TSOs meet these obligations and reduce regulatory exposure.
How does Windward support CER’s 24-hour incident reporting?
The 24-hour clock starts when an operator becomes aware of an incident, and cable operators usually learn of a fault quickly through their own network monitoring. The harder part is establishing what caused it inside the window. Windward reconstructs the vessel activity and context behind a disruption, so operators can characterize the incident and identify responsible parties rather than report only that something happened.
How does Windward help transmission system operators protect submarine cable infrastructure?
Windward’s Maritime AI™ covers every stage of the resilience cycle, from prevention and detection through response and repair. Historical and current vessel activity informs maintenance and route planning, continuous screening flags risk around cables and interconnectors, and post-incident reconstruction delivers evidence-backed reporting. All of it built around the operator’s own risk requirements.
What vessel behaviors near submarine cables does Windward flag as risky?
Windward profiles and flags vessels that loiter, anchor, or interfere near cable routes and interconnectors, including vessels that have gone dark by disabling AIS. Shadow fleet vessels, fishing trawlers, and military-affiliated vessels receive the closest scrutiny. Early Detection also surfaces shifts in vessel populations across a corridor before any single vessel becomes a concern.
How does Windward detect vessels that turn off AIS near cables?
Vessels that disable AIS near your cables do not disappear from Windward’s picture. Remote Sensing Intelligence fuses multi-sensor satellite coverage across EO, SAR, and RF to detect vessels even when they have gone dark. If an incident occurs, the imagery becomes the evidence as timestamped proof of who was at the scene and when.
Can Windward attribute submarine cable damage to a specific vessel?
Operators usually learn of damage from their own fault detection, which leaves the question of which vessel caused it. Windward reconstructs the vessel activity and context behind a disruption, delivering evidence-backed reporting to identify responsible parties and support legal claims. FITBURG dragged its anchor across the Gulf of Finland seabed for several kilometers, a pattern visible in vessel behavior long before a fault is reported.
How does Windward reduce false alarms around cable protection zones?
Proximity alone floods teams, since thousands of legitimate vessels cross cable corridors. Windward’s proprietary behavioral models are trained to distinguish risky activity from benign, and Organization Defined Risk criteria layer the operator’s own routes, protection zones, and risk thresholds on top. Teams see the vessels that warrant a decision rather than every vessel that is nearby.
How does Windward help operators manage GPS jamming?
Dispatching a maintenance crew only to find the area GPS-jammed and the cable untraceable is costly and slow. Windward’s active GPS jamming map shows exactly where interference is happening, updated within the hour, so operators can assess conditions before dispatching.
How does the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center support transmission system operators?
MIOC is Windward’s in-house intelligence arm: a team of ex-naval officers, geospatial imagery specialists, and maritime analysts working as an extension of your team. MIOC delivers tailored reporting, imagery analysis, and post-incident analysis to support faster investigations, insurance claims, and legal proceedings.
How is Windward different from AIS vessel tracking platforms?
AIS platforms show where vessels report themselves to be. Windward assesses what that behavior means, screens it against sanctions exposure and deceptive shipping practices, verifies it with satellite imagery when AIS is absent, and turns it into evidence-backed reporting after an incident.
