
8 General Concepts
8.1 Data Security and Encryption
Making your vessel’s data available over local networks or the internet presents
multiple security concerns. First, it is desirable to keep anyone from viewing your
vessel’s data without authorization. Second, and more important, it is imperative
that no unauthorized persons be able to place data onto your vessel’s NMEA
2000 network.
The N2KView system protects your vessel’s data with multiple levels of
protection.
First, any data that passes between the IPG100 and N2KView is protected using
industry-standard SSL encryption. This encryption standard is widely used to
protect financial information on the internet. Each communication session
negotiates a random encryption key every time a connection is established. This
makes the data secure over public and private Wi-Fi networks, as well as the
internet.
Second, each N2KView station that wishes to connect to an IPG100 must
authenticate itself by means of a server password. The server password is
transmitted by the N2KView station to the N2KServer server over the encrypted
communication link. The N2KServer compares the server password to the one it
was programmed with. Only if the server password received from the station
matches the server’s stored password is the station granted access to the NMEA
2000 network data.
8.2 Using Maretron’s Cloud Server
To use Maretron’s Cloud Server, these steps should be followed.
Contact Maretron or one of Maretron’s dealers and establish an account for the
Cloud Services. You will need to provide a name for your account, the server key
number that will be associated with your account, and decide on a level of data
that you will require. The levels are
• 25 GByte per month – This will be suitable for most users who are not monitoring
video remotely.
• 50 GByte per month – This will be suitable for users that have little remote video
monitoring.
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