The service life of floating production platforms can be substantially shortened due to undesirable excessive vibrations caused by dynamic loads. It is thus necessary to develop effective vibration reduction methods for floating production platforms. This article proposes a network-based active control approach for a spar-type floating production platform (SP) against wave exciting loads and deception attacks. First, a novel active tuned heave plate (ATHP) mechanism based on the concept of the active tuned mass damper is developed for the SP. Second, in the context of networked control of the SP-ATHP system, an event-triggering transmission mechanism is introduced to significantly improve communication efficiency. Meanwhile, a Bernoulli distribution and a nonlinear function are employed to character possible deception attacks in shared communication channels. Then, by modelling the network-based closed-loop SP-ATHP system as a time-delay stochastic system, its stability and H ∞ performance analysis is derived. Besides, some criteria are obtained to co-design the triggering mechanism and the H ∞ controller. Finally, simulation studies demonstrate that compared with some existing heave plate mechanisms, the designed event-triggered H ∞ controllers under this ATHP mechanism are more effective to suppress heave motions of the platform and save network resources and control expenditure. Furthermore, even though there are deception attacks, the proposed scheme can still guarantee satisfactory system performance.