Design, development and implementation of a risk assessment and management system for the maritime transport chain in 30 months? In September 2015, 13 European partners set themselves these tasks. Meanwhile, the EU research project MITIGATE has been completed and the ambitious goal has been achieved. At the beginning of the development was the determination of the requirements of the stakeholders. Many companies in the maritime transport industry need support in assessing how well their IT assets (hardware and software components) are protected against attacks and how external and internal cyber attacks can be prevented. The results of a survey among almost 200 maritime stakeholders showed that nearly two thirds of the companies responding did not carry out a risk assessment. They also expect a solution like MITIGATE to comply with national and international standards and regulations. The result of the project work is a software environment that can be used cloudbased, but also locally in the company.
It enables companies to map IT assets that support their business processes through data processing and data exchange. These assets are…
