Architecture

Zero Trust at Sea: Security Gains and the Risk of Operational Disruption without Fallback Mechanisms

Abstract:

Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) has emerged as a foundational cybersecurity paradigm with wide adoption. However, assumptions made in shore-based enterprise networks pose challenges when applying zero-trust principles in maritime environments. In maritime systems, operations depend on intermittent, low-bandwidth, and often contested communications. Thus, strict zero trust enforcement can unintentionally disrupt mission-critical functions. This paper examines the benefits and limitations of applying ZTA in maritime contexts, with particular attention to safety-critical operations and military. This work outlines a maritime-adapted zero trust framework that integrates degraded-mode operation and fallback mechanisms to preserve operational continuity while maintaining security objectives and safe mission completion.

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Volume 25, Issue 3

The Impact of Architecture and Interoperability on Information Warfare Systems

ABSTRACT

Interoperability of hardware, software systems, and data has been an issue since the inception of those terms. With the proliferation of, and our growing dependence upon Information Warfare (IW), Command and Control Warfare (C2W), and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, interoperability has become a significant concern and the subject of much debate. Interoperability is one of several well-defined attributes of information systems. But in order to produce a well-behaved system containing these attributes an architecture, and architectural concepts must first be developed and followed.

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Volume 1, Issue 1

I Want My Smartphone. I Want It Now. And I Want to Connect to Everything from Anywhere… Now!

ABSTRACT

Even the classified enterprise is going mobile. Trolls and Luddites cannot prevent it. But the bridge to be crossed to mobility nirvana (a secure, cheap, and user-beloved system) is still rickety with many places where one can fall into the chasm of lost data. The forces of malware, user sloth, shoddy component design, and poor system architecture are arrayed against safe passage. But one is not alone. Assisting the crossing are a number of laws requiring privacy and security measures, government programs that induce superior products, policies written for both public and private sector enterprises, standards bodies, and, most of all customers demanding security from vendors. This paper will look at the mobility mission, the threat to mobile, the secure enterprise architectures using defense in depth, the state of security in system components and how that is being improved through a number of efforts, and the impact of new technology.

Published In

Volume 14, Issue 2

Written By

Mark Althouse

Journal of Information Warfare

The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.

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