
Threat Talks · 2026-01-13 · 38 min
You’re Port Control. A vessel requests entry. No captain. No crew. Just autonomy. In maritime cybersecurity, the risk isn’t that the ship is autonomous. It’s that you no longer know who’s steering. Lieuwe Jan Koning (Co-Founder & CTO, ON2IT) joins Stephen McCombie (Professor of Maritime IT Security, NHL Stenden) and Hans Quivooij (CISO, Damen Shipyards) to expose the illusion of control in autonomous shipping - where technology moves fast, responsibility blurs, and regulation lags behind. (00:05) - No captain, just code: the Port Control dilemma (02:05:15) - Autonomous shipping is here - and it’s remote by design (06:15:48) - When it crashes: who owns the blame (and the bill)? (07:38:12) - Ready or not: why “keeping watch” breaks at sea (10:12:49) - Predictable = steerable: the risks most teams miss (13:49:46) - Visibility vs compromise: when the ship becomes a weapon (18:46:10) - The mindset shift: from castles to constant compromise (20:10:45) - Regulation gap: high impact, low control (21:45:50) - Too late?
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