Ensure the reliability, availability, and cyber resilience of IT and OT technologies, working with a trusted partner to governments, national security organizations in the Nordics, and NATO in addition to our work to secure the cyber resilience and compliance of industry.
The cooperation includes developing new AI-based technology for advanced threat detection leveraging machine learning. The focus is on creating new capabilities to detect anomalies that indicate the most advanced threats. It also includes developing context-aware knowledge mining for cyber threat intelligence. The aim is to make cyber threat intelligence better connected to a customer’s business context and easier to utilize. This knowledge mining will use artificial intelligence and large language models.
As Europe faces a rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, the systems that keep societies running have become prime targets. Safeguarding critical infrastructure is now essential to maintaining national security.
Cybersecurity is a key component of national security. Nations depend on resilient digital systems to protect citizens, maintain critical services, and safeguard sovereignty. DNV Cyber delivers cyber security solutions, strengthens products and capabilities, and ensures compliance for governments, defence organizations, and their suppliers. We ensure resilience of our customers IT, and interconnected OT technologies and systems, ranging from classified systems to critical national infrastructure delivering power, water, healthcare, and logistics and military equipment on land and sea. As naval platforms become increasingly digitalized, the Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) components of vessels are now deeply interlinked and inter dependent, making cyber attacks far more impactful. Advances in automation, connectivity, and AI are delivering major operational benefits, but they also expand the attack surface and enable more sophisticated cyber threats. For navies operating in an era of rising geopolitical tension, this creates real risk: coordinated attacks on OT can disrupt missions, logistics, or even critical maritime infrastructure. DNV Cyber helps defence organizations strengthen resilience across the full vessel lifecycle, ensuring that digital innovation enhances operational advantage—not vulnerability.
Digital transformation brings powerful new capabilities, as well as expanded risk. DNV supports organizations realize the benefits of digitalization with confidence by identifying, managing, and mitigating security risks throughout the transformation journey.
We are a trusted partner working with national security organizations across the Nordics and with NATO, having developed our capabilities as part of a long and close relationship with national security actors in Finland.
more than 50 customers in national security & defence
holder of Nato Commercial and Government Entity Code
specialists dedicated to national security cyber security globally
DNV Cyber brings together specialist national‑security expertise, deep domain experience in energy, maritime and healthcare, and internationally recognized security best practice. We secure critical technologies across both IT and OT environments, ensuring that essential systems remain resilient, reliable, and mission‑ready. Our teams advise, build, and independently verify digital components across their full lifecycle to safeguard operations.
Whether strengthening national defence on land and sea, protecting critical infrastructure, or ensuring operational continuity, DNV Cyber is the trusted partner for Nordic and NATO-aligned organizations seeking cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.
As defence and national security rapidly digitalize, cyber resilience is now essential across all systems and environments, including classified networks, Command and Control (C2) systems, and multivendor operational platforms. Mechanical systems are evolving into digitally enabled assets with integrated radios, autonomy modules, and remote-controlled functions, to support modern Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). DNV Cyber helps organizations set Zero Trust-aligned requirements, design secure digital components, and verify compliance from both buyers and suppliers.
These digital shifts extend into the maritime domain which faces its own rapidly evolving cyber challenges. As naval vessels become increasingly digitalized, the IT and Operational Technology (OT) components underpinning systems such as Integrated Platform Management Systems (IPMS), navigation suites and Combat Management Systems (CMS) are now deeply interlinked and interdependent, expanding the attack surface and enabling more sophisticated cyber‑threats. In an era of rising geopolitical tension, coordinated attacks on mission‑critical naval OT can disrupt operations, logistics or even critical maritime infrastructure.
While many onboard OT technologies originate from the commercial sector, naval operations demand a far higher level of cyber resilience. This often requires taking systems beyond baseline compliance with IACS UR-E27 and designing them to withstand highly targeted, sophisticated attacks. With 160 years of maritime heritage and engineering best practice, DNV has unique capabilities to support navies to be cyber resilient with a range of services that ensure compliance with regulations and comprehensive cybersecurity throughout the full vessel lifecycle. We have experience from multiple shipyards and several NATO and Commonwealth navies of embedding security by design from the earliest newbuild stages all the way into operation. By maintaining continuous engagement with yards and OEMs throughout construction and integration, we help customers unlock the benefits of digitalization while ensuring that systems remain secure, resilient, and mission ready.
DNV plays an active role in defence and security communities through our participation in the Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries Association (PIA) where DNV holds the chair position for the Cyber Security Group, the Swedish Security & Defence Industry Association (SoFF), and the Norwegian Defence and Security Industries Association (FSi), as well as other industry coalitions. We collaborate with government agencies, defence suppliers, and research institutions to share insights, promote best practices, and stay aligned with emerging operational needs and the evolving threat landscape. This engagement ensures our solutions reflect the priorities and challenges of the wider national security community.
Through its landmark collaboration with Lockheed Martin, DNV Cyber is establishing a state-of-the-art cybersecurity laboratory to support product development, assess systems and devices, and accredit final products by Finnish organizations.
DNV is also a member of the European Defence Fund R&D project AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Deployable Agent), a collaboration between 28 partners from 15 countries to develop a descriptive and predictive data analytics platform and related tools to prevent, detect, analyse, and combat criminal activities.
DNV reinvests five per cent of its revenue into research and development and has founded a research programme focused on AI and cybersecurity.
As cyber requirements surge across defence and critical infrastructure, DNV helps organisations meet, and exceed, the standards national security demands.
