Missing Element in Maritime Cybersecurity

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As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, maintaining cybersecurity in the maritime sphere requires more international collaboration. 

Cyware, a Virtual Cyber Fusion Platform provider, has partnered with the US Maritime Transportation System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MTS-ISAC) to enhance the maritime community’s ability to collect and share threat intelligence in a timely manner. 

As part of the partnership, Cyware will enable MTS-ISAC’s community to run more efficient end-to-end security automation, cybersecurity operations, threat hunting and incident response programs. 

The MTS-ISAC is an information exchange built around a community-of-communities approach and has become the trusted entity for MTS stakeholders to report and share information and threat intelligence. 

The organization strives to improve cyber risk management across the MTS community through collaboration around intelligence, identification, information protection, detection, response and recovery. 

MTS-ISAC has emerged as a trusted point of coordination for some of the most influential private and public sector stakeholders in the global maritime community, representing ports, terminal operators, vessel operators, cruise, classification societies, energy and government industry stakeholders.

Cyware’s Virtual Cyber Fusion Platform delivers next-generation security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) in tandem with automated threat intelligence, allowing organizations to more easily share threat data and collaborate on threat response. 

This unique combination results in greater visibility into an organization’s security operations and allows for secure information sharing between partners.

Cyware allows MTS-ISAC to collect and share security alerts on the changing threat landscape and intelligence around specific attacks in the maritime transportation industry. With Cyware’s Situation Awareness Platform (CSAP) and Threat Intelligence Exchange (CTIX), MTS-ISAC members can also automatically share threat intelligence with each other, including indicators of compromise (IOCs), malware alerts, vulnerability advisories, security incidents, and phishing attacks among its global maritime community, according to the company’s announcement.