Industry Leaders Launch World’s First Maritime-Specific Cyber Vulnerabilities Database

Cydome, ClassNK, Bureau Veritas, MTS-ISAC and Rakuten Maritime announced today a collaboration called the Blue Initiative to provide the first public database of cyber vulnerabilities focused only on IT and OT devices that are relevant to the maritime industry, available for free at blue-initiative.org.

With the rising number of vulnerabilities discoveries (more than 350,000 published CVEs and 200 entries added each day), identifying and prioritizing which system patches and cyber risks are relevant to each organization has become an extremely complex endeavor.

This new initiative is designed to help shipping companies more effectively address the cyber vulnerabilities affecting the specific systems and equipment they operate by highlighting maritime-related equipment, ability to focus on specific vendors, and proactively alerting users when relevant new vulnerabilities are announced.

“Identifying which vulnerabilities actually matter to the systems maritime companies operate is a major challenge”, said Cydome CEO Nir Ayalon, “and our vision with the Blue Initiative is to have a public and open single source of truth for maritime-related vulnerabilities. This will provide IT and cyber teams, vendors and research facilities a much more focused view of risks relevant to their specific vessels, making vulnerabilities and risk management much more effective and faster than before. “

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