Cybersecurity testing in drones domain: a systematic literature review

The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) drone cybersecurity testing is becoming an emerging and evolving research area for cybersecurity and privacy issues avoidance and prevention. This paper contributes to guiding the research activity by systematically surveying the commonly adopted solutions and proposals for cybersecurity testing in the drone research domain. It highlights the research challenges and issues, classifies the current proposal, methodologies, and techniques, and suggests future directions. After gathering a collection of papers using automated inquiry of well-known digital libraries and snowballing techniques, a classification schema has been proposed and applied to the identified research works. Furthermore, research questions have been identified and answered through the performed classification. The paper provides an outlook on cybersecurity testing in drone environments. It also lists current criticalities, challenges, gaps, and future directions useful to improve drone quality and increase cybersecurity. The analysis reveals that the collected results point to a meaningful evolution and innovative approaches in cybersecurity testing within current research activities.