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    January 2, 2018

    Navigating a Safe Course Through Maritime Cyberattacks

    The open seas have long attracted those who yearned for adventure. The risk of pitting oneself against a vast and unforgiving sea has tested sailors’ mettle for millennia. It’s not surprising that the maritime industry is one that thrives on facing – and overcoming – risks. But, as technology increasingly…
    December 2, 1999

    Cyber-Kinetic Attacks: Safeguarding the Physical World from Digital Threats

    Cyber-kinetic attacks are not science fiction but an emerging reality, as early incidents and government exercises have shown. This paper introduced the term to crystallize the concept that digital attacks can have deadly real-world effects. We have outlined how the rise of connected cyber-physical systems demands a commensurate evolution in…
    January 11, 2018

    Stuxnet and the Birth of Cyber-Kinetic Weapons

    Stuxnet was the first true cyber-kinetic weapon, designed to cripple the Iranian – and perhaps also the North Korean – nuclear weapon programs. It succeeded in slowing the Iranian program, although it was discovered before it could deal the program a fatal blow. Its significance goes far beyond what it…
    March 31, 2015

    The World of Cyber-Physical Systems & Rising Cyber-Kinetic Risks

    We live in a world in which the way we observe and control it is radically changing. Increasingly, we interact with physical objects through the filter of what computational systems embedded in them tell us, and we adjust them based on what those systems relate. We do this on our…

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    • 5G Security5G Opportunity and Cybersecurity
      MarinJanuary 19, 2020

      Opportunity and Cybersecurity in the Age of 5G

      The human will to innovate is seemingly relentless. The history of our species is one of continual development, with the last 350 years, in particular, representing staggering technological progress. The first industrial revolution mechanized production using natural elements like water. The second revolution used electricity to enable mass production; the third used electronics and information technology to automate production. The fourth industrial revolution unfolding all…

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    • 5G SecurityIIoT 5G Trust Security
      MarinOctober 17, 2019

      IIoT and Trust and Convenience: A Potentially Deadly Combination

      When microwave ovens first arrived on the market in 1967 they were met with public skepticism. Perhaps it was because, not long before, the same technology now promising to safely cook consumers’ evening meals was the backbone of a military radar. Perhaps it was the $495 price tag (more than $3,700 in today’s money). Whatever the reason, in the early 1970s the percentage of Americans…

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    • 5G Security5G Connectivity Security
      MarinOctober 8, 2019

      5G Network: A Quantum Leap in Connectivity – and Cyber Threats

      The timeline of human history is marked by inflection points of major technological advancement. The plow, the printing press, the telegraph, the steam engine, electricity, the telephone, the internet: each of these breakthroughs precipitated tectonic shifts in how people lived and worked. Now, in the early part of the 21st century, we stand witness to the birth of a new industrial revolution built on 5th…

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    • 5G SecurityNFC Cybersecurity
      MarinSeptember 5, 2019

      NFC Security 101 (Non-5G IoT Connectivity Options)

      NFC is a short range two-way wireless communication technology that enables simple and secure communication between electronic devices embedded with NFC microchip. NFC technology operates in 13.56 megahertz and supports 106, 212, or 424 Kbps throughput. There are three available modes of NFC communication: Read/write (e.g. for reading tags in NFC posters) Card emulation (e.g. for making payments) Peer-to-peer (e.g. for file transfers) There is no need for…

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    • 5G SecurityRFID Cybersecurity
      MarinAugust 28, 2019

      RFID Security 101 (Non-5G IoT Connectivity Options)

      Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology commonly used for identification, status administration and management of different objects. It is important for people identification, as it is commonly deployed in the latest biometric passports.  It operates in several frequency bands like Low frequency band from 125 kHz to 134 kHz, High frequency band with 13.56MHz working frequency, Ultra-high frequency band with 433 MHz working frequency and 860…

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    • 5G SecurityWi-Fi Cybersecurity
      MarinAugust 21, 2019

      Wi-Fi Security 101 (Non-5G IoT Connectivity Options)

      The Wi-Fi represents wireless technology that includes the IEEE 802.11 family of standards (IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11ac, etc.). Within 50m range, it operates in 2.4 GHz and 5GHz frequency bands,. This technology was developed for wireless networking of computer devices and is commonly called WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), where the communication is realized between wireless routers typically connected…

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    • 5G SecurityBluetooth Cybersecurity
      MarinAugust 17, 2019

      Bluetooth Security 101 (Non-5G IoT Connectivity Options)

      Bluetooth is short-range wireless communications technology based on the IEEE 802.15.1 protocol. It works in a crowded license free 2.4 GHz frequency band and shares this resource with many other technologies. Bluetooth is the optimal solution for establishing small wireless networks called Piconets, by connecting two Bluetooth devices. One of these nodes is Master that can be connected via Bluetooth link to 7 other Bluetooth…

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    • 5G SecurityZigbee Security
      MarinAugust 10, 2019

      Zigbee Security 101 (Non-5G IoT Connectivity Options)

      Zigbee technology introduction Zigbee is wireless PAN (Personal Area Network) technology developed to support automation, machine-to-machine communication, remote control and monitoring of IoT devices. It evolved from IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard and supported by the ZigBee Alliance. IEEE 802.15.4 standard determines specifications for the physical and data link layer and Zigbee Alliance provides standards from network layer to application layer. While Zigbee determines the contents…

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