Contribution to a secure urban air mobility

Abstract

Following the permanent upscaling of the number of unmanned air vehicles applying to enter the airspace, the need for re-structuring of the flow of air traffic gets more and more important. Multitudes of research groups around the world are proposing comparable, yet in detail slightly differing approaches to establish the urban air mobility of the future. The urban air mobility of the future will utilize all kinds of ever-emerging new technologies while posing the need to be connected to legacy systems present in aviation. This is on the other hand a door opener and invitation for malicious subjects to invent innovative new attacks of different kind. As the attack surface is tremendously widened by the grow of urban air mobility, the need to keep the security-by-design principle has to be emphasized.This paper addresses the first development steps of a security perimeter for urban air mobility to already consider security in a holistic and system-wide manner during the design phase and beyond.