Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Cyber Intelligence in Maritime Security Operations, Mustafa Poyraz,Engin Cantekin, Editör, NATO Maritime Security Centre of Excellence, İstanbul, ss.17-24, 2024
Maritime Security Operations (i.e., MSO) can be defined as “the actions of modern navies to combat sea-based terrorism and other illegal activities, such as hijacking, piracy, and human trafficking", and today, play an important role in enforcing compliance with international treaties, by monitoring and preventing any illegal activities at sea.
With the ever-increasing reliance on technology, the threat of cyber-attacks has escalated, posing unprecedented challenges in the maritime domain, having impact on both trade and military activities; and on maritime security operations. While the digital assets at sea and subject to maritime security operations are increasing, the cyber threats targeting them have also evolved and have changed in form, function and sophistication, especially within the last few years, as the cyber threat actors, and the cyber layer of the maritime domain held by well-funded and well-organized threat actors, and cyber-attacks have transformed into advanced attacks for profit whether for financial aims to political gains.
As a subset of cybersecurity, cyber intelligence, also called cyber threat intelligence, is about information acquisition for tracking, analysing, and countering cyber, digital, or information security threats, and in modern MSO, “intelligence is essential for identifying and neutralising threats and threat actors in cyberspace, especially the sophisticated ones”.
Cyber intelligence collection is confusing and the legal framework governing cyber intelligence collection is not consensual between States for many reasons, and legality of cyber intelligence collection is governed by many parameters. It is also important to note that the relationship between intelligence and the final detection capabilities is not well defined in most cases, even the role of information gathering disciplines, which are the basis of intelligence activities in general.