Cybersecurity for transportation and logistics

Logistics depends on systems that know where every shipment, vehicle and container is. If those systems stop, trucks wait at the gate, ships wait at berth and customers wait for their goods. Criminals know that operators under that pressure are more likely to pay a ransom.

What a disruption costs

Delays turn into contract penalties, spoiled cargo and lost customers. A break-in to a transport management system (TMS) or warehouse management system (WMS) can also be used for fraud. Attackers reroute a shipment, change a delivery address or alter invoices so that payments go to them.

Transportation is one of the sectors Indonesia designates as vital information infrastructure. Serious incidents at airports, ports or rail operators therefore draw attention from the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) and the Ministry of Transportation. Passenger and customer data is covered by the Personal Data Protection Law (UU PDP).

The routes attackers use

  • TMS, WMS, ERP and fleet APIs, where weak authorization lets outsiders read or change routes, orders and invoices.
  • Telematics and GPS trackers in vehicles, which can be spoofed or, in some cases, used to lock or unlock vehicles remotely.
  • Control systems at ports, airports and warehouses, such as cranes, conveyors and baggage handling, when they are not properly separated from office IT.
  • Partner portals used by carriers, forwarders and customs brokers, which give outsiders a path into your network.

What Snipeyes does

We test external systems, internal networks, APIs and operational technology (OT, the systems that control physical equipment). A red team exercise, which is a covert, goal-based attack, can show whether someone could reach dispatch or control systems without being noticed. Each finding is explained in operational terms: which lanes, hubs or services it would affect.

Findings are mapped to ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 and NIST CSF, giving you evidence for regulators, customers and insurers. You receive the report within 10 days of testing, and we retest before your peak season.

Our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) and threat intelligence service can give early warning of ransomware activity across your network.

Air, sea and land operations across several hubs and borders keep running during our work. We scope by lane or site and work under NDA.

Snipeyes is CREST-accredited and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. Our testers use PTES, MITRE ATT&CK (Enterprise and ICS) and the OWASP API Security Top 10. Airlines, rail operators, shipping lines, 3PL and 4PL providers, freight forwarders, and warehouse and last-mile operators are the clients we have in mind here.