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DHS Continues to Warn Private Industry Against Using Foreign-Made Drones

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Monday, December 9th, 2019

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DHS Continues to Warn Private Industry Against Using Foreign-Made Drones

The DJI Mavic is one of the drones experts from DOI have analyzed for data leakage.

Government cybersecurity officials continue to warn U.S. companies about the dangers of using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) designed or manufactured abroad, according to a sensitive document distributed to private industry by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Nov. 20. The private industry bulletin warns companies that they risk the exposure of private data when operating UAS “designed, manufactured, or supplied abroad where the data is stored, transferred to, or accessible by servers in a…

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