Cloud-SPHERE: A Security Approach for Connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity and are current applied in many fields. They have benefited from the recent technology development and have now increased connectivity, which allows them to achieve higher levels of mission complexity and coverage. Among others, security is considered one of the greatest challenges for UAV usage acceptance from the general public, and it scales when this vehicle can communicate with other vehicles and/or systems. This paper presents Cloud-SPHERE, a security approach for unmanned vehicles to communicate and provide services securely, targeting their integration into the IoT ecosystem. The design and operation is outlined and preliminary prototyping results are presented.