CyberDockside.ai and HexaShield Partner for Maritime Cyber Resilience
CyberDockside.ai, a maritime cyber resilience specialist, has announced a strategic partnership with HexaShield to deliver continuous cyber estate monitoring for port authorities, terminal operators, and vessel operators across the AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. CyberDockside.ai will lead client engagements, consulting, assessments, and testing alongside its maritime platform, while HexaShield will provide managed security services delivered via its 24×7 Security Operations Centre (SOC).
Addressing OT Security Challenges in Maritime Operations
Maritime operators face growing demands from regulators, shipping lines, and insurers to demonstrate verifiable security across operational technology (OT) environments rather than relying on simple assurances. Delivering this proof requires continuous visibility across complex environments — a challenge when vessels lose connectivity, change crews, or when terminal equipment must be scanned without interrupting ongoing operations.
Solving these issues requires continuous monitoring across shoreside OT systems — including cargo movement, quay and yard equipment, gate access systems, and terminal power — as well as shipboard bridge, engine, and cargo control systems. By combining CyberDockside.ai’s domain expertise with HexaShield’s technology stack, the partnership aims to help maritime organizations satisfy stringent third-party evidential requirements.
Under the agreement, CyberDockside.ai will conduct initial scoping and passive assessments followed by a time-boxed proof-of-value on the client’s live estate prior to broader deployment. Regulatory alignment, framework scope, and service licensing requirements will be tailored to each client’s specific jurisdiction during onboarding.
“Our customers have asked us for years how to extend testing results from the vessel and the terminal into a platform they can monitor continuously and evidence to a regulator. HexaShield provides that depth without asking anyone to replace what they already run. It is the partnership our customers were describing to us before we could deliver it.”
Remie Kalloe, CEO, CyberDockside.ai
Integrated Managed Resilience Architecture
Central to the solution is HexaOT, HexaShield’s proprietary passive monitoring platform designed to perform asset discovery and monitoring without disrupting safety-critical or continuous maritime operations. HexaShield delivers six integrated capabilities across ten proprietary platforms, including managed detection and response via HexaSOC, coverage measurement through HexaCore, compliance and third-party risk management on HexaComply, intelligence fusion through HexaInt, and content custody via HexaCustody to protect commercially sensitive data.
All capabilities are managed via an analyst-led service, giving operators a single point of accountability. Client teams can oversee their security posture through HexaView, a unified console providing granular operational visibility alongside executive summaries suited for board-level reporting.
“A port cannot pause to investigate an alarm and a vessel mid-ocean cannot wait for office hours. What maritime operators need is not another tool to watch, but visibility they did not have and somebody accountable when it matters at three in the morning. Cyberdockside.ai understands this industry and the people running it. We bring the platforms and the operation. Between us the clients gets one answer instead of a project to manage.”
Marc Philips, Managing Director, HexaShield
The joint solution offers a complete maritime cyber resilience framework covering compliance, OT security, and managed detection and response. Compliance and risk controls map directly to key maritime regulations and standards, including NIS2, IMO guidelines, and IACS requirements.
About HexaShield
HexaShield is a cyber resilience company that combines proprietary platforms, specialist expertise, and strategic technology partnerships to strengthen cyber resilience across complex organisations. Delivering six integrated capabilities across ten proprietary platforms through a single accountable partner, HexaShield operates across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. Learn more at hexashield.io.
About CyberDockside.ai
CyberDockside.ai is a cyber resilience partner specialising in the maritime sector, protecting complex fleets, ports, and shoreside operations. The company provides tailored solutions, methodologies, and standards for both automated and manual threat intelligence and cyber event testing. Learn more at cyber.dockside.ai.