Windward launches AI-powered Critical Maritime Infrastructure Protection solution

Windward (LSE: WNWD), the main Maritime AI™ firm, in the present day introduced the launch of its Important Maritime Infrastructure Safety resolution, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered resolution designed to guard the world’s important maritime infrastructure together with cables, pipelines, and rigs in opposition to rising threats.

Latest suspected assaults on undersea cables globally, in addition to the sabotage of oil pipelines lately, have demonstrated the vulnerability of world power and knowledge networks and the important have to safe them. The answer combines the Windward-mapped proprietary cable layer and built-in person knowledge with its best-in-class AI-based behavioral sample detection to empower organizations starting from authorities and intelligence businesses to telecommunication and power firms to determine, monitor, and mitigate dangers earlier than they trigger disruption. It additionally helps post-investigations, offering proof to insurers and regulation enforcement businesses.

Maritime infrastructure is the spine of world connectivity and financial stability. Deep sea cables transmit roughly 95% of all worldwide knowledge and underwater pipelines transport crucial power sources, together with pure gasoline and crude oil, throughout continents. Based on a risk evaluation by Insikt Group, there’s a median of greater than 100 cable faults a 12 months, and the proximity of latest faults to areas of geopolitical battle and reviews of suspected intentional injury are causes for concern. Latest examples of cables broken by anchors within the Baltic Sea and close to Taiwan in addition to the explosion that severely broken the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of pipelines in 2022 spotlight the necessity for elevated monitoring of crucial infrastructure at sea.

Windward’s Important Maritime Infrastructure Safety resolution addresses three main threats to maritime infrastructure, deep-sea analysis operations, shallow-water sabotage, and assaults on offshore oil rigs and platforms. The AI-powered resolution screens high-risk vessels to flag suspicious actions, be it a rogue state analysis vessel within the deep sea, or a shadow fleet vessel in shallow waters or in shut proximity to grease rigs. The platform accesses historic knowledge, behavioral patterns, and predictive analytics with real-time monitoring alerts, powered by the built-in Dataminr feed, to allow customers to proactively assess and mitigate threats. MAI Skilled™, Windward’s digital material skilled offers complete danger evaluation and context.

For enforcement businesses—together with protection and intelligence organizations, coast guards, and navies—Windward’s Important Maritime Infrastructure Safety resolution offers the instruments and insights to detect, monitor, and mitigate hostile actions concentrating on subsea infrastructure. The platform allows real-time monitoring of high-risk areas and guarded zones, delivers detailed risk intelligence, and facilitates post-incident investigations by proprietary knowledge layers, danger fashions, and superior analytics.

For personal organizations stakeholders, equivalent to telecom infrastructure suppliers, power firms, oil and gasoline operators, and tech giants with subsea belongings, Windward’s resolution provides monitoring capabilities to safeguard in depth cable, pipeline networks, and offshore rigs. Organizations can add their proprietary knowledge, set custom-made danger parameters, and outline alerts primarily based on their particular infrastructure wants above or beneath the waters.

“The financial and geopolitical implications of undersea infrastructure sabotage are staggering,” mentioned Ami Daniel, Co-Founder and CEO of Windward. “Past the rapid disruptions, nationwide stability and monetary implications for companies counting on cables for connectivity and operational continuity are immense. Whereas latest incidents stay beneath investigation, the rising dangers—whether or not unintentional or intentional—underscore the pressing want for superior monitoring. With our Important Maritime Infrastructure Safety resolution, we goal to defend all stakeholders from this new form of warfare.”