Ken Munro is presenting at 11:45 on Track 1: All at sea. Thought your OT / IT infrastructure was complex? Try doing it on a cruise ship.
Cruise ships are among the most complex environments you’ll find in a single moving location. They combine propulsion, navigation, and power generation with a hotel, restaurant, casino, and theatre, plus safety and fire control systems. That complexity makes strict separation between OT and IT difficult. Ship engines are often monitored and controlled remotely, and at sea, troubleshooting can unintentionally bypass network segregation.
We’ll share several instructive, and occasionally entertaining, stories of taking control of ships—including reaching a ship’s Azipods via a passenger game simulator. Fortunately, genuine attacks on vessels remain rare, but the potential consequences, and the knock-on effects on global trade, are increasingly clear.
