Establishing a Safe and Secure Municipal Drone Program

This paper provides guidance on the safe and secure introduction and operation of a municipal “drone” program. This paper will try to analyze the drone’s role and impact on future metropolitan areas, with a focus on information security threats caused by the mainstream utilization of the drone, the impact drones could have on the main municipal aspects, such as performance, efficiency and national security, and the measures that need to be taken to protect, monitor, respond to and recover from cyber security threats. We will also describe how drones can be used as an effective cyber security tool in the monitoring of a smart city environment.