The Navy aims to install cyber baselines aboard 180 ships

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By Andrew Eversden
C4ISRNET.com
06/30/2020

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command plans to deploy technology that will 
certify a ship’s compliance with cybersecurity requirements to 180 vessels by 
fiscal 2022.

The cyber baseline system — deployed by FRD 300, which is short for the 
Cybersecurity Office of the command’s Fleet Readiness Directorate — is a 
web-based application. It allows the directorate to ensure a ship’s systems 
comply with cybersecurity requirements set by the departments of Defense and 
the Navy prior to departure, according to a June 29 news release from NAVWAR.

A baseline “offers a searchable, easy-to-use, platform-specific record of all 
Navy networks, including hosted and connected, afloat and ashore systems, 
enabling the ability to independently manage and maintain a ship’s information 
technology capabilities,” the release said.

Cyber baselines have been deployed aboard 40 ships in fiscal 2019, the release 
said. The program, which started in January 2018, has implemented cyber 
baselines on 80 Navy ships as of June 2020, according to the release.

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