Cyber security threat analysis and modeling of an unmanned aerial vehicle system

2012 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 585-590

  Javaid, Ahmad Y ^a   Sun, Weiqing ^a   Devabhaktuni, Vijay K ^a   Alam, Mansoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

cyber security; network attacks; threat modeling; unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

ATTACK PATH; CRITICAL OPERATIONS; CYBER SECURITY; LOSS OF CONTROL; MINIATURE ELECTRONICS; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; NETWORK ATTACK; POTENTIAL THREATS; REMOTE LOCATION; SECURITY THREATS; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY; THREAT MODELING; THREAT MODELS; UAV SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAVS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS;

COMPUTER CRIME; NATIONAL SECURITY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84874555938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/THS.2012.6459914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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