A Systematic Security Testing Approach for InterUSS-based environments
For maintainers of InterUSS-based UTM ecosystems, this work fills a gap in security testing by providing a systematic guide for component validation and interaction analysis.
The paper presents a security testing approach for InterUSS-based UTM environments, developing a Testing Guide with specific tests aligned to standards like mTLS and OAuth 2.0 to address infrastructure-level security challenges.
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) federated ecosystems, such as InterUSS, enable secure coordination among UAS Service Suppliers (USSs). However, they bring up some security challenges at the infrastructure level that haven't been fully explored. This paper presents a security testing approach for InterUSS-based environments from the maintainer's perspective. By deploying and analyzing a working InterUSS infrastructure, we pinpoint key components and develop specific security tests aligned with established standards and protocols, such as mTLS and OAuth 2.0. We compiled these tests into a Testing Guide that aids both component validation and interaction analysis across InterUSS-based ecosystems, filling a gap in current research.