Logistics and port cybersecurity in Pakistan covers some of the country's most strategically significant infrastructure — Karachi Port Trust, Port Qasim, and the CPEC-linked Gwadar deep-sea port — and none of it has a published cyber-audit-firm panel yet. As port automation and operational-technology systems expand, the OT/ICS security gap at these facilities is real and largely unaddressed.
Mutex Systems brings OT/ICS-aware assessment methodology to Pakistan's ports and logistics operators — building ahead of a formal mandate, in facilities where the security exposure already exists.
Every regulator with real jurisdiction over logistics & supply in Pakistan, what they actually require, and where the audit-firm empanelment opportunity or existing engagement stands.
Karachi Port Trust
Not registered — opportunity
Port Qasim Authority
Not registered — opportunity
Gwadar Port Authority
Not registered — opportunity
Named instruments, not vague policy statements — sourced from official regulator publications.
MoITT
Applies to: All public & private sector organisations nationally, including port and logistics authorities
Requires: National cyber-governance baseline that port authorities fall under in the absence of a sector-specific maritime cyber rule
Read the official sourceWith no published cyber-audit panel for any Pakistani port authority, grComply applies generic ISO 27001/CIS framework templates via a tenant custom framework — the same "build ahead of mandate" approach used for Healthcare and Pharma.
Not yet, formally. As of this research pass, none of Karachi Port Trust, Port Qasim Authority, or Gwadar Port Authority has published a cyber-audit-firm panel or a sector-specific cybersecurity regulation. All three fall back on the general National Cyber Security Policy 2021 governance expectations in the absence of a maritime-specific rule.
Port operations increasingly rely on operational technology — terminal operating systems, automated gate systems, crane and yard automation, and container-tracking platforms. As this automation expands, the attack surface grows alongside it, even though the sector regulator has not yet published a formal cybersecurity mandate to govern it.
Its strategic profile as a CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) hub gives Gwadar Port Authority a materially higher future-value threat profile than a typical regional port, even though no formal audit-firm panel exists there today either. This makes early security investment more clearly justified for Gwadar than for a port with a lower strategic profile.
PCLRA, established in 2018 to regulate courier and logistics service providers, has no cyber-audit mandate identified. The Pakistan Land Port Authority, created by an Act assented on 30 August 2025 to regulate land border-crossing trade infrastructure such as Torkham, Chaman, and Wagah, is too new to have a published cybersecurity framework — worth revisiting in 12 to 18 months as the authority matures.
Yes. Mutex Systems brings OT/ICS-aware assessment methodology — the same discipline applied to NEPRA-regulated power infrastructure — to port terminal operating systems, automation, and logistics infrastructure, designed to respect the operational and safety constraints of live port environments.
Send us a short brief — your current posture, which regulator you answer to, and any inspection or audit deadline. Within two working days you will receive a written response and a proposed scoping call.