Post-assessment: Document findings and assign ownership. Monitor for Law-Tech Connect 2026 outputs and any forthcoming FAA or CISA guidance on UAS cyber requirements. Incorporate UAS threat scenarios into tabletop exercises.
Post-Incident
NIST 800-61r3 §4 — Post-Incident Activity: Document lessons learned, update policies, improve detection capability, and share intelligence to strengthen future IR posture
NIST IR-4 (Incident Handling) — update incident handling procedures to incorporate UAS-specific scenarios: C2 link takeover, GPS spoofing triggering autonomous behavior, remote ID spoofing, and counter-UAS system false positives
NIST IR-3 (Incident Response Testing) — conduct tabletop exercises simulating UAS cyber incidents including BVLOS boundary violation via GPS spoofing and GCS network intrusion leading to flight control manipulation
NIST IR-5 (Incident Monitoring) — establish ongoing tracking of FAA, CISA, and Law-Tech Connect 2026 regulatory outputs as authoritative sources for UAS cyber requirement updates
NIST SI-5 (Security Alerts, Advisories, and Directives) — formally subscribe to FAA SAFO notifications, CISA ICS-CERT advisories (UAS/avionics category), and relevant MITRE ATT&CK for ICS updates covering UAS attack techniques
CIS 7.2 (Establish and Maintain a Remediation Process) — assign remediation owners and due dates for each control gap identified in the assessment, with re-validation checkpoints tied to BVLOS reauthorization cycles
Compensating Control
For teams without formal GRC or ticketing platforms: use a shared markdown or spreadsheet-based findings register with columns for finding ID, description, affected UAS asset, NIST control gap, assigned owner, target remediation date, and status. For tabletop exercises: develop a 2-hour scenario based on a GPS spoofing attack causing a BVLOS aircraft to deviate from its authorized corridor, requiring the team to work through detection (RF anomaly alert), containment (return-to-home command or C2 override), and FAA notification decision. Use MITRE ATT&CK for ICS technique T0856 (Spoof Reporting Message) and T0816 (Device Restart/Shutdown) as scenario anchors. Subscribe to CISA's free alert service at cisa.gov/uscert/mailing-lists-and-feeds for ICS and UAS-relevant advisories.
Preserve Evidence
Preserve all assessment outputs as formal records before closing: gap analysis findings, CSF mapping spreadsheet, MAVLink parameter dumps, RF baseline captures, and GCS configuration exports. These constitute the pre-remediation evidence baseline and will serve as the comparison point for future assessments or regulatory audits. Retain meeting notes or outputs from Law-Tech Connect 2026 sessions as contemporaneous records demonstrating the organization's awareness of emerging regulatory requirements — relevant if future FAA enforcement actions assess when organizations were on notice of cybersecurity obligations.
