Symposium on maritime cyber security and resilience

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IMO and the University of Plymouth's Cyber-SHIP Lab jointly organized a Symposium on "Maritime cyber security and resilience" taking place on 13 and 14 November 2024 in person at IMO Headquarters, London. 

The Symposium shared the latest international maritime cyber risk evaluation and mitigation research and explored how Governments, industry, researchers and NGOs can collaborate to build international maritime supply chain cyber resilience. 

Industry, government, defence and academic expert speakers addressed topics across ship, port and maritime supply chain cyber security, including cyber security and safety of assets and people, new technologies, policy development and seafarers' training.

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Programme

Please find the programme here and below: 

Day 1, Wednesday 13 November

09.00-09.30 - Opening remarks

  • Mr. Hiroyuki Yamada, Director of Maritime Safety Division, on behalf of the IMO Secretary-General, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez 

  • University of Plymouth (UoP) - Professor Kevin Jones IMO

  • UK Government Parliamentary Under Secretary, Dept for Transport - Mike Kane

09.30-10.15 - Keynote: Update on Maritime Cyber Security Research

10.15-11.00 - Panel discussion 1 - Progress since last year

11.00-11.30 - Coffee/networking break

11.30-12.30 - Current state-of-the-art

12.30-12.45 - Q&A

12.45-14.00 - Lunch break

14.00-15.00 - Artificial intelligence (AI) developments

15.00-15.15 - Q&A

15.15-15.45 - Coffee/networking break

15.45-16.30 - Panel discussion 2 - Developing Tech for Maritime Cyber Security

16.30 - Day 1 End

Day 2, Thursday 14 November

09.00-09.25 - Registration/networking

09.25-09.45 - Keynote: IMO's Cybersecurity Framework for Global Shipping

09.45-10.30 - Panel discussion 3 - International Perspectives

10.30-11.30 - Coffee/networking break - Four key themed discussions

11.30-12.45 - UoP Interactive Tabletop Workshop

12.45-14.00 - Lunch break

14.00-14.45 - Industry Keynote

14.45-16.05 - Industry Focus

16.05-16.15 - Q&A

16.15-16.30 - Symposium wrap-up


Background

The Cyber-SHIP Lab is the University of Plymouth Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group's unique hardware-based maritime cyber-physical testbed facility. The Symposium is the fourth Cyber-SHIP Lab annual symposium and its third year hosted by IMO. It will build on the success of the 2021, 2022 and 2023 symposia that attracted an exceptionally wide range of expert international speakers and delegates.

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