The IMO’s Facilitation Committee conducted its first ever virtual regular session of an IMO Committee, with meetings held simultaneously in plenary and in a working group, developing new guidelines for electronic signature, among other issues.
IMO’s Fall Committee 44, conducted during September 28 to October 2 2020, considered draft Guidelines for authentication, integrity and confidentiality of content for the purpose of exchange via maritime single window, prepared by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
The guidelines proposed aims at meeting the need for authentication, integrity checks and confidentiality in electronic information exchanges, both for cybersecurity purposes and for building trust in automated ship and shore processes.
The Organization also placed a correspondence group to review and develop the guidelines, keeping in mind the existing and emerging standards, methodologies and legal frameworks to promote interoperability.
Concluding, the group was also instructed to consider how common functions related to the authentication, integrity and confidentiality of information exchanges via maritime single windows and related services can be organized.
