Exploring Cyber-Security Issues in Vessel Traffic Services

摘要

In recent digital evolution years, cyber-terrorist activity is increasingly rising all over the world deploying new methods, using advanced technologies and sophisticated weapons. A potential terrorist attack on a large commercial Port could lead to dramatic losses. This work aims to illustrate methods for recognizing cyber-threats and security weaknesses on the ports' Critical Infrastructures and explores how these issues can be systematically exploited to harm ports and their vicinity. To this end, we follow an asset-centric approach, which employs knowledge representation techniques, to detect vulnerability chains and possible attack-paths on ports' assets. Considering the results, a realistic coordinated cyber-attack scenario on the application case of the Cruise Vessel Traffic Service is presented to show how cyber-attacks can be realized by terrorists on commercial ports.