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PSCR 2021: Overhead! Cybersecurity and Public Safety UAS

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Michael Ogata, Raymond Sheh, Randall Nichols, Teague Forren

Abstract

In recent decades, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have become vastly cheaper and more fully featured. Public safety has begun to incorporate these devices into their missions for everything from reconnaissance, to surveillance, to situational awareness. As with every new piece of technology, public safety must consider the risks and threats they take on by employing these systems. In this session, we explore this attack surface through a panel discussion with three UAS cybersecurity experts.
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Keywords

cybersecurity, public safety, unmanned aircraft system (UAS)
Public safety communications research

Citation

Ogata, M. , Sheh, R. , Nichols, R. and Forren, T. (2021), PSCR 2021: Overhead! Cybersecurity and Public Safety UAS, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932563 (Accessed October 18, 2025)

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Created October 1, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022
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