With nearly $25 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a deep bench of cyber executive leaders, and recently expanded cyber authorities, the Coast Guard is poised to make generational improvements in maritime cybersecurity while bolstering its own cyber workforce.
Maritime Port Cybersecurity The world’s largest ports in central global hubs have made the greatest progress in digitization, and ongoing trends point to near-universal maritime port digitization by the mid-twenty-first century. However, rapid innovation outpaces security measures and exposes port infrastructure to cyber threats.
The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) has undercurrents of a classical maritime document that connects strategy to economic power. Echoes of the turn of the nineteenth century permeate the strategy, with implicit allusions to the Roosevelt Corollary, the Great White Fleet, and, most of all ...
This brief presents a new data-driven framework for identifying Chinese maritime gray zone activity near Taiwan, using AIS tracking, fishing effort data, and military drill zones to flag civilian vessels likely engaged in state-directed operations.
CSIS experts spotlight the maritime security environment in the Indo-Pacific, using regional experience and satellite imagery to provide leading analysis.
Please join CSIS and USNI for a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring Admiral William J. Houston, USN, Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, Department of the Navy/Department of Energy.
We testified on U.S. Coast Guard maritime security operations before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security. It is based primarily on the following ...
csis.org: How Taiwan Reimagines Maritime Security: Insights from the 2025 National Ocean Policy White Paper
The 2025 white paper marks a major shift in Taiwan’s view of maritime security. The 2020 White Paper approached maritime security mainly through territorial disputes. Chapter 2, Section 2, “Maritime ...