SPECIAL SESSION #07

Raphael Machado

UFF and Inmetro

• raphaelmachado@ic.uff.br

Alan Oliveira de Sá

University of Lisboa

• aodsa@fc.ul.pt

The special session “Cybersecurity for the Maritime Sector” aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry stakeholders interested in the cybersecurity challenges emerging from the increasing digitalization, automation, and connectivity of maritime systems and operations. As ships, ports, offshore platforms, navigation infrastructures, and marine monitoring systems become more dependent on software, embedded electronics, communication networks, sensors, and data-driven decision-making, cybersecurity becomes a central requirement for safety, reliability, resilience, and operational continuity.

This special session will provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing methods, technologies, and practical experiences related to the protection of maritime cyber-physical systems. It welcomes contributions addressing cybersecurity in vessels and onboard systems, port and logistics infrastructures, communication and navigation systems, autonomous and remotely operated maritime platforms, underwater and offshore infrastructures, and integrated sensing and monitoring environments. The session is particularly interested in works that connect cybersecurity with broader issues of instrumentation, measurement, control, reliability, and system assurance in maritime applications.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, cyber risk assessment in maritime environments; security monitoring and anomaly detection; intrusion detection and incident response; protection of embedded and operational technology systems; security of maritime IoT and sensor networks; resilience of navigation and positioning systems; detection of spoofing and jamming; secure communications; AI-based approaches for cyber defense; digital twins for security evaluation; and security by design for maritime platforms and infrastructures.

By promoting dialogue across cybersecurity, metrology, instrumentation, automation, and marine engineering, this special session seeks to advance the development of trustworthy maritime systems capable of operating safely and resiliently in the presence of evolving cyber threats.

Raphael Machado is Professor at the Institute of Computing of Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and Researcher at the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro), Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has extensive experience in cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, and applied research in strategic sectors. His work has been developed at the intersection of academia, government, and industry, with emphasis on cybersecurity for critical infrastructures, maritime and vehicular systems, digital transformation, and innovation-oriented R&D projects. His research interests include cybersecurity, maritime systems, cyber-physical systems, critical infrastructures, embedded and intelligent systems, and applied metrology for digital technologies.

Alan Oliveira de Sá is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisboa. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2019), received the M.Sc. in electronic engineering by the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2015) and graduated in electronic engineering by the Rio de Janeiro Federal Center for Technological Education (2006). He is an integrated researcher at the LASIGE research laboratory, where he is member of the Cyber‐Physical Systems and the Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems research lines. His research interests include cyber‐physical systems, cybersecurity, naval systems, defense systems, and intelligent systems.