This was achieved by integrating a full suite of services to deliver future cyber security to the world’s fleets, the company said.
ShipSecure is a multi-layered fleet security management system that is designed to protect, monitor, and control the global fleet security network from a single management portal.
It can offer real time visibility of threats and protection, and the ability to control the total on board security infrastructure end-to-end from the internet to the PC.
“Building on our highly successful ShipSat platform, we deploy virtual machine and cloud-based technologies to integrate on board unified threat management (UTM) devices and sensors, alongside CISCO’s latest threat intelligence cloud-based services to deliver an end-to-end maritime cyber security platform,” said Asad Salameh, World-Link Communications president.
“Integrating with CISCO technologies allows us to offer our customers access to the latest global threat intelligence and the latest in next generation IPS/IDS firewalls,” he explained.
ShipSecure delivers policy-based protection, real-time and historical data analysis, and the management tools necessary to overview the cyber security paradigm of a fleet.
By collecting data from on board security sensors, anti-virus and anti-malware software, and on board network firewalls, a security IT manager can identify threats across the fleet, isolate the problem area, and take immediate remedial action to minimise the effect of any threat or breach, the company claimed.
In June of last year, World-Link launched ShipNet, a fleet vulnerability management system, that gives fleet IT managers access to all of their vessels’ networks.
Using this system, an IT manager can measure and rate an individual vessel’s critical vulnerabilities, as well as suggest remedial action to resolve those vulnerabilities.
ShipNet tests against a continuously updated database of more than 50,000 vulnerabilities.