A First Step Towards an Automated Methodology for the Security Risk Assessment of U-Space Solutions

U-space is an European initiative for developing a framework to support drone operations, as well as a clear and effective interface to manned aviation, by means of a fully automated drone management system. With the U-space revolution, drones are going to pose an ever-evolving threat landscape with complex multi-domain security risks. Thus, U-space security is a primary challenge, requiring proper security-by-design approaches. In addition, research should address automated security risk assessment for facing the U-space complexity and for increasing the cost-efficiency of engineering secure U-space systems. This work proposes a preliminary definition of a methodology relying on formalisms, techniques and tools for the automated security risk assessment of U-space solutions. As a first step, a model-based methodology is investigated for a semi-automatic impact assessment of attacks on U-space. Some preliminary results are presented for a case study about drone-based pharmaceutical delivery in U-space environment.