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fleet‐wide, while data requirements can be adapted depending on whether the owner/manager uses highspeed maritime broadband, offered via Ka‐band services, or L‐band.
The industry’s appetite for real time remote vessel management describes only one driver to engage with IoT‐based solutions, however. Another ‘route to market’ comes via the increasing demand from crew, where seafarers now see connectivity as a right and consider its availability when comparing employers. Indeed, one of the more memorable sentiments expressed by a seafarer in a study conducted by Royal Holloway University of London last year – ‘Navigating Everyday Connectivities at Sea’ ‐ was that ‘The only thing more important than connectivity is food’.
While the connectivity allotted to crew and operations is segregated, there has been a clear upturn in demand for managed Wi‐Fi solutions based on crew requirement. This is providing a stepping‐stone for some owners to engage with IoT‐based solutions while – for the moment ‐ remaining on lower data business packages.
Shipping is often chided for its cyber vulnerabilities, and Inmarsat’s research had some illuminating insights to offer. Its 125 survey respondents revealed themselves to be more concerned
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about data storage methods (55%), network security (50%) and potential mishandling of data (44%) than they are about targeted attacks (39%). Meanwhile, only 37% report initiatives to improve security training, with just 25% are working on new IoT security policies.
At a time when crews are more eager than ever to connect to the IoT, often using their own devices, shipboard systems can be easily compromised by an infected laptop or memory stick. Few of the world’s 1.6 million seafarers working today have an IT expert working alongside them at sea; Inmarsat research indicates that 76% of ships have no one on board taking responsibility for cyber security.
For these reasons, blocking cyberattacks – whether direct or via malware – is only one aspect of a three‐sided defence which must also isolate infected systems and prevent ship network disruption, and provide seafarers with the procedural training and awareness to remain vigilant against cyber threats.
Stefano Poli VP Business Development, Inmarsat UK,
Member of the Society of Maritime Industries *The Industrial IOT on Land and at Sea – published July 2018; Vanson Bourne Research
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