Towards a Maritime Cyber Range training environment

Abstract

Maritime Organizations, private companies, Governmental and Legal Authorities related to the Maritime Domain are significantly considering the impact of Cyberattacks. Cybersecurity incidents are evolving and becoming more sophisticated, because of the increasingly integrated and technologically dependent environment. A Maritime Cyber Range, as a dedicated computing infrastructure for Maritime cyber training, provides a vital environment for relevant defensive training drills. Conducting effective training in the maritime domain is essential due to the unique systems and their uses at land, port and sea. In this paper, a Maritime Cyber Range training environment is presented, highlighting the core components of such an environment. The presented Cyber Range environment, combines navigational, information and telecommunications systems, networks, and SCADA systems. It supports maritime vulnerability, penetration and exploitation scenarios, traffic eavesdropping, GNSS/AIS spoofing, navigation takeover, signal intelligence scenarios, and others.