Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded type approval certification to an ICT solution, which provides a centralized IT environment onboard for digital infrastructure and ship-to-shore communications that are managed and administered remotely on a 24-hour basis.
The ICT solution is called ‘VCell’ from IQ Solutions. During the early stages of the VCell certification process, Bureau Veritas provided guidance for its cyber security requirements and protection of critical assets, such as component hardening; user profiles; authentication; encryption; storage; connections; and remote access.
Bureau Veritas and IQ Solutions have established evaluation and monitoring procedures of VCell to ensure the integrity and availability of information.
A survey was also performed to validate specific points such as equipment compliance; accounts and security policies; network architecture and security; as well as recovery and patch management procedures.
