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Zero Stars: Analysis of Cybersecurity Risk of Small COTS UAVs

Authors:
Dillon M. Pettit
Rich Dill
Scott Graham

Keywords: UAV; cybersecurity; quantitative; risk assessment;COTS

Abstract:
Commercial off the shelf small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market has grown immensely in popularity within the hobbyist and military inventories. The same core mission set from the hobbyists directly relates to global military strategy in the modern age, with priority on short range, low cost,real time aerial imaging and limited modular payloads. These small devices have the added perks of a small cross section,low heat signature, and a variety of transmitters to send real-time data over short distances. As with all new advances withinthe technological fields, security is a second-thought to reaching the market as soon as viable. New research is showing growing exploits and vulnerabilities, from individual small UAVs guidance and autopilot controls to the mobile ground station devices which may be as simple as a cellphone application. Research calls producers to fix and engineer the small UAVs to protect consumers, but consumers are left in the dark to the protections installed when buying new or used vehicles. At current date,there is no marketed or accredited risk index for small UAVs,but current research in similar realms of traditional Information Technologies, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Cyber Insurance give insight to significant factors required for future small UAV risk assessment and prioritize lessons learned. In this research, three fields of risk frameworks are analyzed to determine applicability to UAV security risk and key components that must be analyzed by a proper UAV framework. This analysis demonstrates that no adjoining field’s framework can be directly applied without significant loss of fidelity and that further research is required to index risks of UAVs

Pages: 90 to 95

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: October 27, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-746-7

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 27, 2019 to October 31, 2019