PONDICHERRY MARITIME ACADEMY

UNI VM, the awarded solution for Maritime Cyber Safety Uni is a virtualization solution for vessels that provides a high availability, active-active cluster for managing onboard systems and applications. It offers customization options that can adapt to any IT infrastructure on board, utilizing existing equipment and high-end specs. MarPoint’s Central Management Platform provides a holistic approach to IT infrastructure management, ensuring a seamless and efficient operation. MarPoint’s solutions are designed to comply with IMO 2021 guidelines and IACS URs E26 & E27 for cyber safety, making them a reliable choice for businesses seeking to enhance their cyber resilience and minimize the risk of cyber attacks. Evo2 Router The Evo2 Router is an ABS Class-Approved multi-WAN network management solution that provides seamless internet connectivity, independent of the airtime provider. Equipped with redundant hardware components, it ensures true failover and advanced network manag...

Maritime is one of the oldest industries and lifeblood of the global economy, accounting for the carriage of 90% of world trade. Ships and other vessels may seem like unusual targets for cyberattacks. But with their growing use of industrial control systems (ICS) and satellite communications, hackers have a new playground that’s ripe for attack. In a 2020 Safety at Sea and BIMCO Maritime Cyber Security survey, despite the majority of respondents (77%) viewing cyber-attacks as a high or medium risk to their organizations, few appear to be prepared for the aftermath of such an attack, 64% of respondents said their organization has a business continuity plan in place to follow in the event of a cyber incident, but only 24% claimed it was tested every three months, and only 15% said that it was tested every six to 12 months. Only 42% of respondents said that their organization protects vessels from operational technology (OT) cyber threats, and some respondents went so far as to describe...

WHAT IS CARBON INTENSITY? In the shipping industry, carbon intensity is the measure of a ship’s GHG emissions relative to the amount of cargo carried over a certain distance. This metric is preferable to total carbon emissions as a measure of a vessel’s environmental impact because it controls for periods of inactivity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, total vessel GHG emissions briefly declined as more ships remained docked; this, of course, was due to a dip in supply chain productivity, not because of more efficient shipping. Carbon intensity, on the other hand, takes economic activity into account, providing a more realistic measure of the shipping industry’s progress toward a more sustainable future. OVERVIEW OF THE CARBON INTENSITY INDICATOR (CII): Regulators and other stakeholders in the maritime industry are intensifying their efforts to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping. The IMO, as the international regulatory body, set a Greenhouse Gas Re...

Maritime cyber risk refers to a measure of the extent to which a technology asset could be threatened by a potential circumstance or event, which may result in shipping-related operational, safety or security failures as a consequence of information or systems being corrupted, lost or compromised. Cyber risk management means the process of identifying, analysing, assessing and communicating a cyber-related risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring or mitigating it to an acceptable level, considering costs and benefits of actions taken to stakeholders The overall goal is to support safe and secure shipping, which is operationally resilient to cyber risks. IMO guidance: IMO has issued MSC-FAL.1/Circ.3 Guidelines on maritime cyber risk management. MSC-FAL.1/Circ.3 5 July 2017 GUIDELINES ON MARITIME CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT The Facilitation Committee, at its forty-first session (4 to 7 April 2017), and the Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-eighth session (7 to 16 Ju...