Current Trends in Cyber Security for Drones
Suthikshn Kumar, Sanket Mohanty
Abstract
With many of the functionalities of Drones being controlled by highly sophisticated Computers through wired and wireless networks, Cyber security is playing a vital role in ensuring the safety and security of these. There are many incidents being reported about the breach of Cyber Security involving Drones thus bringing to focus existing vulnerabilities and threats. The attackers may be remotely launching the attacks. The successful attacks can have a high impact leading to serious incidents. In this paper, several case studies are discussed illustrating the Cyber related incidents in Drones. The latest developments in Cyber Security are presented applicable to the Drone industry. The Cyber Security best practices, countermeasures, attack detection and mitigations techniques are presented which are specific to UAVs.