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

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.

Bibliometric and Qualitative Analysis of Workload Studies in the Maritime Sector

“…bibliometric studies are undertaken in maritime studies to understand research trends, identification of impactful publications and authors, and analysis of relationships within the field (Başhan, 2022;Podsakoff et al, 2008;Başhan and Çetinkaya, 2022;Tran et al, 2019). For instance, bibliometric studies in the field of maritime research have explored topics such as maritime accidents (Gil et al, 2020;Demirci and Elçiçek, 2023;Cao et al, 2023), autonomous ships (Chaal et al, 2023;Li et al, 2023), seafarer's health and stress (Sharma, 2021;Jiang et al, 2023), port and maritime transport (Chen et al, 2018;Munim and Saeed, 2019) and maritime cybersecurity (Bolbot et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2023). However, there appears to be a lack of bibliometric studies specifically focusing on the concept of workload in the maritime domain.…”