Hybrid ports: the role of IoT and Cyber Security in the next decade

The next future will be played on a cyber level that imposes the need to merge "physical” with "digital in all fields”: phygital will be the future of current world, in many sectors, primarily in the transportation fields. Nowadays ports are doing several investment to provide technical solution to attract freight flows, are they ready to provide an answer to the cyber threat? This paper wish to present an overview of the main implications related to the cyber threats and maritime transports.