A security protocol allowing entities in a drone system to exchange application-level messages with confidentiality and authenticity guarantees.
Published in Chapter:
Drone Security: Threats and Challenges
Marc Lacoste (Orange S.A., France), David Armand (Orange S.A., France), Fanny Parzysz (Orange S.A., France), Loïc Ferreira (Orange S.A., France), Ghada Arfaoui (Orange S.A., France), Yvan Rafflé (Orange S.A., France), Yvon Gourhant (Orange S.A., France), Nicolas Bihannic (Orange S.A., France), and Sébastien Roché (Orange S.A., France)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7646-5.ch013
Abstract
This chapter explores the security challenges of the drone ecosystem. Drones raise significant security and safety concerns, both design-time and run-time (e.g., supply-chain, technical design, standardization). Two broad classes of threats are considered, on drones and using drones (e.g., to attack critical infrastructures or vehicles). They involve both professional and non-professional drones and lead to various types of attacks (e.g., IoT-type vulnerabilities, GPS spoofing, spying, kinetic attacks). Trade-offs involving hardware and software solutions to meet efficiency, resource limitations, and real-time constraints are notably hard to find. So far, protection solutions remain elementary compared to the impact of attacks. Advances in technologies, new use cases (e.g., enhancing network connectivity), and a regulatory framework to overcome existing barriers are decisive factors for sustainable drone security market growth.