Security and Safety of Unmanned Air Vehicles - an Overview

Cyber-physical systems permeate the fabric of our society, being a crucial part of what makes it possible. As such, ensuring their security is a primal concern that cannot be neglected, whether it relates to essential services, transportation or factories. But new scenarios and use cases are emerging, which require equal concern and care, as it is the case for Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAVs) technologies. Over the past years, several technological developments made it possible to create effective and inexpensive embedded computing and communications capabilities which, in their turn, were crucial for the development of modern UAVs. Such vehicles are quite diversified in terms of form and function, encompassing a wide range of implementations, from conventional drones to quad or octocopters. UAVs can be quite versatile, having found different applications, from leisure to warfare