Security Testing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Unmanned aerial vehicle's (UAV's), are becoming more popular in both military and commercial use. Generally, they are remotely piloted or rely on global positioning systems (GPS) which makes them vulnerable to cyber security attacks. This paper demonstrates an approach for security testing...

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Published in2016 Cybersecurity Symposium (CYBERSEC) pp. 26 - 31
Main Authors Hagerman, Seana, Andrews, Anneliese, Oakes, Stephen
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2016
Subjects
autonomous vehicles
Global Positioning System
Mathematical model
MBT
Security
security testing
Testing
Unified modeling language
Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Summary:Unmanned aerial vehicle's (UAV's), are becoming more popular in both military and commercial use. Generally, they are remotely piloted or rely on global positioning systems (GPS) which makes them vulnerable to cyber security attacks. This paper demonstrates an approach for security testing a UAV. Our approach has previously been demonstrated on both pre-flight and post-liftoff launch vehicle systems. This approach uses a behavioral model, an attack model, and a mitigation model to build a security test suite. We identify attack points in a system using behavioral and attack models. We then generate a UAV security test suite based on attack mitigation models.
DOI:10.1109/CYBERSEC.2016.012