DNV GL approval for Wärtsilä Translink

Translink is a system that comprises the hardware, router and software components. Together, they ensure that data can be encrypted during transmission using the latest protocols of cyber security.

“Digitalisation offers more efficient and better ways of operating and designing vessel equipment, such as integrated voyage planning including the remote update of ECDIS charts,” said Jarle Coll Blomhoff, group leader cyber safety & security, DNV GL.

“With a third party cyber verification, vessel owners can take advantage of such new technologies with assurance that it follows best practice cyber security design,” he added.

The product is type approved and ready to be applied for vessels with the DNV GL Cyber Secure Class Notation, while the IEC reference aligns it with the industry prerequisites, as well as any regulatory requirements.

Following more than ten years of experience in connecting ECDIS with implementation and certification of four generations of cyber security solutions, Translink provides a cyber secure gateway for Wärtsilä Navigation systems to the outside world, including for connecting ports or revolutionising voyage planning with the new Wärtsilä Navi-Planner.