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.

Undersea Infrastructure

Your Complete Solution for Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure

Whether you are the owner or operator of the critical undersea and offshore infrastructure or the security organization tasked with securing it, you understand that safeguarding critical maritime infrastructure is extremely challenging and requires timely, proactive measures.

Windward Critical Maritime Infrastructure Protection is the only solution that provides real-time protection around exact cable locations, an industry-best list of suspicious vessels, and advanced behavioral pattern detection. You’ll be able to effectively identify, anticipate and mitigate threats.

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.

Provide alerts via an in-platform feed, powered by Dataminr, on critical maritime infrastructure events from external sources for context and explainability.

Critical Undersea

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.

How to Prevent Damage to Your Maritime Infrastructure

Effective monitoring and protection of critical undersea infrastructure requires:

  1. Identifying likely suspects
  2. Detecting suspicious behaviors
  3. Searching within key areas

Windward’s AI-powered Critical Maritime Infrastructure Protection solution enables you to search for risky vessel populations that have engaged in activities associated with sabotage attempts above or near the infrastructure that matters to you.

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Advanced AI-Based Protection

Automatic 24/7 data collection & fusion | Customized Dataminr 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 of Early Detection

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