Aybars Oruc
Background and activities
Background
The background of Aybars Oruc is in marine engineering. After he had worked as an engineer on different types of merchant vessels such as aframax tanker, LPG tanker and container vessel, he worked as HSEQ Coordinator, and then HSEQ Superintendent in a tanker management company for 4 years. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the NTNU. He is the member of IMarEST, IET and Engineering Council-UK. He is also a member of CISaR group and MarCy project at NTNU and a fellow member of the Maritime Cyber Risk Management Special Interest Group in IMarEST. His research field is maritime cyber security. He was in the IMO to perform his research activities for a while in 2022.
Education
• M.Sc. in Maritime Transportation Management Engineering
Piri Reis University, Turkey.
• B.Sc. in Marine Engineering
Near East University & Kyrenia University, Cyprus.
• HND in Marine Engineering
Turkish Maritime Education Center, Turkey.
• Vocational School in Marine Engines
Galatasaray University & Bahcesehir University, Turkey.
• High School in Marine Engines
Ziya Kalkavan Maritime College, Turkey.
M.Sc. Thesis
Oruc, Aybars. (2020). Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Tankers and
Defence Methods [Master dissertation, University of Piri Reis].
YÖK.
Journal Articles
Oruc, Aybars. (2022) Tools for Organizing an Effective Virtual
Academic Conference. Serials Review.
Amro, Ahmed; Oruc, Aybars; Gkioulos, Vasileios; Katsikas, Sokratis.
(2022) Navigation Data Anomaly Analysis and Detection.
Information, 13(3), 104.
Oruc, Aybars. (2022) Potential Cyber Threats, Vulnerabilities, and
Protections of Unmanned Vehicles. Drone Systems and
Applications, 10(1), 51-58.
Oruc, Aybars; Gkioulos, Vasileios; Katsikas, Sokratis. (2022) Towards
a Cyber-Physical Range for the Integrated Navigation System
(INS). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(1), 107.
Oruc, Aybars. (2021) Requirements for Productivity in the Academic
Environment. Higher Education Studies, 11(4), 40.
Conference Publications (Peer-Reviewed)
Oruc, Aybars. (2020) Claims of State-Sponsored Cyberattack in the
Maritime Industry. 15th International Naval Engineering
Conference & Exhibition (INEC 2020). Online. 2020.10.05 -
2020.10.09.
Oruc, Aybars. (2019) Tanker Industry is More Ready against Cyber
Threats. International Conference on Marine Engineering and
Technology (ICMET 2019). Muscat. 2019.11.05 - 2019.11.07.