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Safety and Security Issues in Employing Drones

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The use of drones has been steadily growing over the past few years, not only in a variety of businesses and governmental organizations but also among private individuals. This is due to the rapid deployment of drones for a variety of applications, which can be accomplished by merely attaching the application-specific devices to drones, which are typically controlled by a remote or a smartphone. However, the breakthroughs that have been made in the use of drones have also opened up security challenges. In many applications, the orders that are sent to the drones and the data that is transmitted from the drones are not encrypted. As a result of the fact that drones are also used for illegal and criminal activities by bad actors, it is necessary to add technology for attack detection, protection, and preventive countermeasures in drones, in addition to regulation on the usage of drones through law enforcement by the government agencies. In this chapter, we will analyze the exploiting of drone vulnerabilities such as GPS spoofing, Downlink intercept, and Data exploitation. Additionally, we will examine how to neutralize threats and countermeasures that should be addressed for the safety of the drones.

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  1. Department of CSE, Baba Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Durga Prasad Srirangam

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, India

    K. Hemalatha

  3. Department of Electronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

    Ashok Vajravelu

  4. Department of ECE, Mohan Babu University (Erstwhile of Sree Vidaynikethan Engineering College), Tirupati, Andra Pradesh, 517102, India

    N. Ashok Kumar

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Srirangam, D.P., Hemalatha, K., Vajravelu, A., Ashok Kumar, N. (2023). Safety and Security Issues in Employing Drones. In: Jahankhani, H., El Hajjar, A. (eds) Wireless Networks . Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33631-7_4

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