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Many northern European societies are built on a foundation of trust, stability, and well integrated public services such as healthcare, education, transportation, governance, and security. These are not just separate functions, they are essential, integrated parts of daily life. They create a system where everything works together, minimizing risks and ensuring a high quality of life for everyone in society.
Imagine if the same practice was applied to vessel IT infrastructure. Instead of fragmented systems that require constant oversight and decentralized decisions, they would provide a cohesive, fully integrated IT ecosystem, ensuring seamless operations, robust cybersecurity, and reliable connectivity, without any gaps or interruptions for the user.
Some readers might find this analogy challenging if they are unfamiliar with the Nordic model, but the key idea is an initiative-taking approach to vessel IT, rather than a reactive one. You want digital functionality to work for you, instead of you working for it. And you want your overall investments in IT to bring a clear return on investment. Making it easier to scale up on digital initiatives.
The key is understanding the long-term cost savings the stability and up time it brings to your business.
The public health system of your vessel IT-system
One of the clearest parallels is cybersecurity. Think of a national healthcare system, it’s designed to prevent or contain disease outbreaks, protect public health, and ensure that no one falls through the cracks. If healthcare were an optional, privately insured service, gaps would form. People would choose minimal coverage, others might not be able to afford it, and suddenly, a small outbreak could escalate into a national crisis. In your case effecting business.
The same logic applies to cybersecurity on vessels. When cybersecurity is treated as an optional, separate service, or done independently per vessel in a fleet, ships and business become vulnerable. If every department or subsystem manages security differently, like private insurers with different policies, you create weak spots that attackers can exploit. One single unprotected or less protected system could compromise the entire fleet and company. Similar to an unchecked virus spreading through a population. At the same time. Having multiple separate security contributors not only increases costs unnecessarily but also creates more security gaps than an integrated solution.
With BlueCORE, cybersecurity is built in, just like public healthcare in the Nordic model, It does not rely on individual choices or separate services, it’s an integral part of the IT infrastructure, constantly monitored and updated, ensuring that every digital part of the vessel is protected without requiring additional action from the crew or management.
The public transportation of IT
Nordic cities are known for their highly efficient, well integrated public transportation systems. Trains, buses, and ferries run on synchronized schedules, ensuring people move effortlessly from place to place without the inefficiency of fragmented, isolated solutions.
BlueCORE brings this same efficiency to vessel IT. Instead of multiple independent systems requiring manual intervention, everything is automated, connected, and refined. Updates, security patches, and data synchronization happen in the background, much like a well-functioning metro system that gets people where they need to go without them needing to act on every decision that is needed to navigate through a city getting to the right destination.
Without this kind of automation, vessels rely on manual processes, just like cities that depend solely on individual transport means instead of established public transit. It creates bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and higher risks of failure. BlueCORE removes these inefficiencies by providing an IT backbone that works seamlessly, no matter how complex the vessel’s needs are.
If you look into the future of self driving vehicles and transportation in general. We will most likely, in urban environments be subject to a system that makes sure we get to our required destination on time, being as efficient and secure and safe along the way as possible but taking away the human choice on all aspects along the way.
Risk assessment & best practices, setting the standard
The Nordic model as a tool for running society isn’t built on guesswork or gut feeling and certainly not on the basis that we should manage every challenge or temporary downfall in a crisis fashion, it follows proven models, best practices, and risk assessments to maintain high standards of safety and efficiency. Preventing anything that can disrupt the standards put in place and agreed on. The model does not wait for accidents to happen before implementing safety regulations. It analyses risks, set standards, and proactively enforces them.
The same philosophy applies to BlueCORE. It is not just a collection of IT tools it’s a system designed with risk assessment at its core. Every part follows established best practices for cybersecurity, redundancy, and operational stability. Instead of letting individual vessel owners decide their own security levels, creating inconsistencies and vulnerabilities, BlueCORE ensures that all ships run at a high, standardized level of protection and efficiency.
Just as Nordic building codes prevent unsafe construction, BlueCORE’s integrated risk management approach ensures that IT systems aren’t just functional, but resilient, ready to withstand threats, system failures, and operational challenges before they even arise.
Regulations and compliance
A key strength of Northern and Scandinavian societies is their strong legal frameworks. Laws and regulations are clear, ensuring that businesses and citizens, for most, operate within safe, predictable environments.
In vessel IT, compliance and cybersecurity regulations are becoming increasingly strict. But instead of treating them as restrictive checkboxes, BlueCORE embeds compliance into its core infrastructure, ensuring vessels naturally align with general industry regulations without the need for reactive, last-minute fixes.
A society at sea
The Nordic model and society´s build on interconnections, healthcare, security, economy, transportation, and governance working together to protect and empower everyone.
BlueCORE applies this same principle to vessel IT. Instead of fragmented, optional systems that create vulnerabilities, it provides an all-in-one, seamlessly integrated IT infrastructure where cybersecurity, automation, risk assessment, and compliance are built in, not bolted on.
When security isn’t optional, safety isn’t a question. And when IT works as a unified system, vessels run more efficiently, more securely, and more predictably. Just like a well functioning society. A well-functioning society is amongst many things also profitable at it´s core.
Just like your business should be.