Appraise the Desideratum of Cyber Security for Armed Drone

Udaya Kumar Giri, Shrish Kumar Tiwari

doi:https://doi.org/10.59232/CYS-V2I2P102

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Volume 2 | Issue 2 | Year 2024 | Article Id: CYS-V2I2P102 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/CYS-V2I2P102

Appraise the Desideratum of Cyber Security for Armed Drone

Udaya Kumar Giri, Shrish Kumar Tiwari

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06 Apr 2024	08 May 2024	30 May 2024	12 Jun 2024

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Udaya Kumar Giri, Shrish Kumar Tiwari. “Appraise the Desideratum of Cyber Security for Armed Drone.” DS Journal of Cyber Security, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 9-19, 2024.

Abstract

Industrial and technological advancement has paved the way for the emergence of highly sophisticated and modernized arms and ammunition in the defence sector. Unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as drones, emerged as a force multiplier technology that makes intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition easier. The technological processes that include the airframe, propulsion system, embedded computing system, ground control system, and autopilot systems of drones can run through networking or by connecting the GPS systems. That makes drone technology vulnerable because its networking and dispersed physical systems located in remote places make it easier for cyber-attacks on control loops. For instance, GPS spoofing, fuzzing attacks, hijacking, immobilization, and gain scheduling attacks are most common for cyber attackers, which cannot deny the operability of the UAVs but pose security threats to the host countries. So, in this premise, this paper examines the necessity and role of cyber security for unmanned aerial systems or armed drones. Further, this paper analyses various methods to protect armed drones from cyber-attacks.

Keywords

Cyber-attack, Armed drone, Spoofing, Hijacking, Information corruption.

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