How to secure a drone
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What are best practises for securing drones?
When looking at today’s drone technology secure communication is a must to provide an acceptable level of security to prevent attacks from sensor spoofing, wi-fi attack, GPS spoofing, GPS jamming, the list goes on.
- To secure against drone attacks a layered defence approach works well
- Physical access to drones is very difficult to defend against, but best practises are worth implementing
- Creating a minimum benchmark for securing drones must be established
- Make sure you have robust sensors on board to monitor in real time the status or health of the drone
- What open ports are you using and are they secured
- Make sure software and firmware is signed
- Antenna placement and direction
- Advanced algorithms
- PKI from a trusted authority and safe repository
- Software assurance practises
- Encrypted communications links
Creating a baseline for security on drones and mitigating against attack vectors for today and in the future is a great start. There are a lot more initiatives you can take but these are just a few.