The Hodeidah Attack Temporarily Changed Shipping & Risk…Here’s How (Weekly Roundup)
Windward made sure to quickly get you up-to-date on the Hodeidah port attack and its implications for the maritime and supply chain ecosystems. Now let’s go deeper and see the numbers behind rising dark activities and an increase in the daily average of anchoring operations in Port Said’s port waiting area (showing vessels may be…
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Crowdstrike IT Outage Spotlights Ports’ Cybersecurity Readiness
The vulnerability of global port operations has been spotlighted after the recent IT outage caused by Crowdstrike, a leading cybersecurity firm. Its faulty security update caused Microsoft Windows computers around the world to crash. As ports become increasingly digitized, they are also becoming prime targets for cyberattacks, with the potential consequences ranging from operational disruptions,…
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Why Unmanned Systems are Having a Maritime Moment
Effective Usage of Unmanned Systems is Dependent on… Oceans are vast, there are hundreds of thousands of vessels at sea, and security threats rapidly evolve and change. With too much sea, ground, and air to cover, and limited resources available to law enforcement and defense agencies, achieving effective and actionable maritime domain awareness (MDA) is…
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The Dark Side of AIS: Staying Ahead in a Sea of Spoofing
How We Got Here Automatic identification systems (AIS) are crucial maritime technologies designed for vessel tracking and collision avoidance. They transmit a ship’s identity, position, speed, and voyage details to other vessels and monitoring stations, mainly for the prevention of illegal occurrences and collisions at sea. The systems’ integrity was quickly compromised, though. Bad actors…
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