2026-03-25 ジョージア工科大学
＜関連情報＞
- https://research.gatech.edu/researchers-find-training-gaps-impacting-maritime-cybersecurity-readiness
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719027.3744816
サイバー脅威の海：船員の視点から見た海事サイバーセキュリティ A Sea of Cyber Threats: Maritime Cybersecurity from the Perspective of Mariners
Anna Raymaker, Akshaya Kumar, Miuyin Yong Wong, Ryan Pickren, Animesh Chhotaray, Frank Li, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
CCS ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security Published: 22 November 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3719027.3744816
Abstract
Maritime systems, including ships and ports, are critical components of global infrastructure, essential for transporting over 80% of the world’s goods and supporting internet connectivity. However, these systems face growing cybersecurity threats, as highlighted by recent attacks disrupting Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, causing widespread impacts on international trade and shipping. The unique challenges of the maritime environment-including diverse operational conditions, extensive physical access points, fragmented regulatory frameworks, and its deeply interconnected, international structure—require maritime-specific cybersecurity research. Despite the sector’s critical importance, maritime cybersecurity remains an underexplored area, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of its challenges and risks.
To take an early step in addressing these gaps, we investigate how operators of maritime systems perceive and navigate cybersecurity challenges within the complex maritime landscape. We conducted a user study comprising surveys and semi-structured interviews with 21 officer-level mariners. Participants reported direct experiences with shipboard cyber-attacks, including offshore GPS spoofing and logistics-disrupting ransomware, demonstrating the real-world impact of these threats. Despite this, our findings reveal systemic and human-centric issues, such as cybersecurity training that is poorly designed to address the unique challenges of maritime operations, insufficient detection and response solutions, and severe gaps in mariners’ understanding of cybersecurity. Our contributions include a detailed categorization of cyber threats identified by mariners, as well as actionable recommendations for improving maritime security, including enhancements to cybersecurity training, attack response protocols, and regulatory frameworks. These insights aim to guide future research and policy to bolster the resilience of maritime systems against evolving cyber threats.
