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MARITIME SECURITY Cyber Security

In Shipping & Offshore Ops

BY HENRIK SEGERCRANTZ lobal shipping and offshore needed maintenance service. Shipown- munication capacity was discussed at a truly global coverage and also, at each oil and gas operations are ers and oil companies develop their inte- conference on future unmanned vessel given time the satellite disk is looking at increasingly dependent on grated energy management systems. The operations arranged by NorShipping, in the next cell as well. The connection gets

Gintegrated networks, based risks for data security violations are in- Oslo, Norway, June 2015. In that context, more secure, it gets more back-up, and on various software and data transfer creasing, requiring focused countermea- security was also touched on by Ronald the security itself is of highest priority solutions. Systems and equipment on- sures including actions by all parties. Po- Spithout, President, Inmarsat Maritime. when it comes to designing the new net- board are interconnected, monitored and tential cyber security threats for shipping Inmarsat plc is a leading provider of work.” The new network was scheduled controlled through an onboard automa- and offshore oil and gas installations global maritime satellite communica- for launch towards the end of 2015, after tion network. Onboard systems are in- follow to a large extent those of onshore tions, and Spithout said that a cluster of Inmarsat having achieved global cover- creasingly also connected ashore to the industries and companies, including also satellite cells for communications is cur- age by adding a third satellite providing owners’ or technology providers’ control the element of satellite communications. rently being built around the world, pro- a completely new way of dealing with centers. Equipment manufacturers want viding security and redundancy, based traf? c signals increasing security. “In the to remotely upgrade the software of their Major Developments in SatCom on beams and cells, “where each beam future there will be more than one satel- systems and monitor their use to be able With the increasing sea-shore traf? c will have up to 89 little cells which are lite connection link with the vessel pro- to optimize operations and to scheduled the future availability of satellite com- all in relation to each other so you get a viding reliability and redundancy.”

The amount of communication options is growing for

Communication broker solutions shipping and offshore installations. from Maritime Communication Partner (MCP) is shown at left and Inmarsat Plc at right.

Sources: DNV GL, MCP, Inmarsat Plc 22 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • JANUARY 2016

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