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Literature review on maritime cybersecurity: state-of-the-art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2023

Hongchu Yu Open the ORCID record for Hongchu Yu [Opens in a new window] ,
Qiang Meng ,
Zhixiang Fang  and
Jingxian Liu
Hongchu Yu*
Affiliation:
School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Sanya Science and Education Innovation Park of Wuhan University of Technology, Sanya, China
Qiang Meng
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zhixiang Fang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Jingxian Liu
Affiliation:
School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Sanya Science and Education Innovation Park of Wuhan University of Technology, Sanya, China
*
Corresponding author: Hongchu Yu; Email: hongshuxifan8140@163.com
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Abstract

Maritime cybersecurity has attracted increasing attention in industrial and academic scope, which may be relevant to the increasing cyber-incidents in the maritime shipping industry. This paper presents a critical review of publications related to cybersecurity in the maritime transportation industry, to explore the current research status and gaps, as wells as to guide new probe avenues by employing bibliometric approaches. With the advantage of bibliometric methods, the research focus and evolution are conformed and visualised. Representative papers are reviewed together to demonstrate maritime cyber-threats recognition and categories, as well as potential consequence assessment and risk mitigation actions recommendation. This paper also created a detailed database that is comprised of attack form, occurring time, targets, purpose, as well as potential results and cost, which has been included in the Appendix and is fully portable and extendible.

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maritime cybersecuritycyber-incidents recognitionconsequence assessmentrisk mitigation

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 76 , Issue 4-5 , July 2023 , pp. 453 - 466
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