A Cybersecurity Risk Framework for Unmanned Aircraft Systems under Specific Category

Abstract

Nowadays, safety and cybersecurity are some of the most important issues involving the development of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations. For safety, the lawmakers and aviation authorities have a lot of efforts to establish an adequate safety level for UAS operations within the current airspace system. One of them is the Specific Operation Risk Assessment (SORA) methodology developed by Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Aircraft System (JARUS). This methodology provides a guide to conduct risk assessments for UAS operations under the Specific Category. However, the methodology supports only some problems related to safety. In this paper, we introduce our approach to extend the SORA methodology toward cybersecurity. We illustrate this approach by extending the methodology to cover the privacy problem - an aspect related to cybersecurity. Besides that, we also introduce our supporting tool in the form of a web application that helps users conduct automatic risk assessments.