In spring this year, Japanese ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) laid out its latest ideas for ensuring onboard cyber security for ships. The society published a series of technical guidance documents incorporating topics such as designing cyber security onboard ships, effective vessel cyber security management systems, and software security.
The documents were guided by ClassNK’s new Cyber Security Approach, which is something of a vision statement for cyber security in the maritime industry.
“Response to cyber threats is an urgent matter for the entire maritime industry,” ClassNK said in a March press release. “In the ClassNK Cyber Security Approach, ensuring navigational safety is regarded the most important goal of onboard cyber security. To achieve it, it is of high priority to ensure availability of systems in terms of operation technology (OT) as well as information technology (IT)…
