Resilient & Reconfigurable Maritime Comms
Avinash Srinivasan, Brien Croteau
DEF CON 33 (backfill) · Day 1 · Main Stage
In an era of increasing global trade and geopolitical complexities, the security and efficiency of maritime communications are paramount. This talk, "Resilient & Reconfigurable Maritime Comms," presented by Avinash Srinivasan and Brien Croteau from the US Naval Academy, addresses critical challenges facing modern naval and commercial shipping operations. The speakers propose a novel **Unified Communications Framework** that integrates **Software-Defined Radios (SDR)**, **Software-Defined Networks (SDN)**, and existing **Satellite Communications (Satcom)** infrastructure to create a more robust, adaptable, and secure communication ecosystem at sea.
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Naval Academy researchers propose a conceptual SDR+SDN+Satcom integration framework for maritime comms — no prototype, no testbed, no implementation data, no exploits demonstrated. The vulnerability survey (AIS spoofing, GPS jamming, VSAT misconfig, ECDIS exposure) is years-old public knowledge, and the 'framework' amounts to architecture diagrams backed by theoretical RTT math. This is a graduate seminar presentation wearing a DEF CON badge.