MISSION 007
Compromised Reconnaissance Flight
Blue Teampractitioner35 min
Detect suspicious access to mission data and preserve command integrity.
CloudDetection
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Drone Cyber Range
Attack. Defend. Build resilient drones.
ZoneOfWar is a hands-on cyber range for unmanned and autonomous systems. Practice realistic attack and defense missions in isolated virtual environments, measure performance in real time, and move to controlled hardware labs when you're ready.
Built for authorized cybersecurity training, research and resilience testing.
FIELD TEST · ISOLATED ENVIRONMENT
A cloud-native cyber range where teams learn to attack, defend and build resilience into drones and autonomous systems through realistic, isolated and scored missions.
"Train for the cyber battles that happen before, during and after autonomous missions."
The Problem
Drones are cyber-physical systems, but most security teams train only on traditional IT.
Modern UAS combine flight controllers, embedded software, wireless communications, navigation, sensors, ground-control systems and cloud services. A weakness in any layer can affect confidentiality, mission integrity or safe operation. ZoneOfWar turns those risks into repeatable training missions where teams can learn without endangering real aircraft or public networks.
Drone & ground-control architecture
Understand how the components fit together and where trust breaks down.
Telemetry & command-link security
Test the assumptions built into command-and-telemetry channels.
Navigation & sensor integrity
Recognize abnormal positioning and sensor disagreement early.
Embedded Linux & firmware
Investigate the companion computer and flight-controller stack.
Wireless & protocol security
Work through commonly deployed UAS protocols and their weaknesses.
Detection engineering
Build visibility into telemetry, network and system behavior.
Incident response & recovery
Contain and recover without unnecessary mission failure.
Resilient mission design
Design systems that degrade safely instead of failing outright.
Attack Surface
One aircraft, five trust boundaries.
Every layer of a UAS carries different assumptions about trust. ZoneOfWar missions are built around the boundaries between them.
1
Flight Controller
Firmware and control loops closest to safe flight.
2
Companion Computer
Embedded Linux running mission and autonomy logic.
3
Command & Telemetry Link
The channel carrying instructions and status data.
4
Navigation & Sensors
GNSS, inertial and sensor-fusion inputs.
5
Ground Control & Cloud
Operator applications, fleet management and storage.
How It Works
Five steps from sign-up to skill record.
- 01
Launch an isolated mission environment.
- 02
Choose Red Team, Blue Team or Red vs Blue mode.
- 03
Work against mission objectives, not multiple-choice questions.
- 04
Receive live scoring across detection, containment, integrity and mission outcome.
- 05
Review evidence, timeline and skill gaps in the after-action report.
Featured Missions
Realistic missions, not multiple choice.
Every ZoneOfWar mission is a reproducible environment with a story, objectives, evidence, scoring and defined learning outcomes.
MISSION 009
Contested Navigation
Blue Teampractitioner30 min
Identify abnormal positioning behavior and execute resilient fallback procedures.
Navigation
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MISSION 012
Fleet Intrusion
Blue Teamadvanced50 min
Investigate signs of compromise across a multi-drone environment and contain the affected asset.
CloudDetectionIncident Response
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MISSION 004
Medical Delivery Under Attack
Blue Teampractitioner40 min
Keep an autonomous delivery mission safe while communications and telemetry become unreliable.
CommunicationsNavigation
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Choose Your Mode
Red Team. Blue Team. Red vs Blue.
Red Team
Learn the attack surface by working inside it.
Understand how weaknesses are discovered and exploited inside authorized sandbox missions.
Explore the Attack Range →Blue Team
Defend the mission, not just the endpoint.
Harden systems, detect anomalies, investigate evidence and maintain mission resilience.
Explore the Defense Range →Red vs Blue
Two teams. One mission. Live consequences.
Simultaneous adversary and defender exercise with a shared mission outcome.
Explore Red vs Blue →Live Scoring
Measure mission readiness, not course completion.
Every mission generates evidence about how a person or team performed under pressure.
Mission OutcomeSafe Recovery
- Detection
- 91
- Containment
- 78
- Mission Integrity
- 86
- Evidence Quality
- 94
Time to Detect02:14
Recommended next missionFleet SOC 021
The after-action report shows the event timeline, actions taken, missed signals, detected behaviors, mission outcome, score breakdown and recommended next labs — so progress is measured by performance, not seat time.
See a Sample After-Action Report →Solutions
Built for practitioners, teams, universities and product security.
Defense & Public Safety
Delivering mission-ready, interoperable solutions for defense and security agencies. Prepare teams for cyber and cyber-physical risks involving unmanned systems, with private exercises, instructor control, after-action evidence and custom mission development.
Critical Infrastructure
Train security teams to understand both friendly-drone dependencies and malicious or compromised UAS risk around critical operations. Focus on detection, incident coordination and resilient operations.
Drone Manufacturers
Accelerating defense innovation and compliance for prime contractors and industry partners. Give product-security and engineering teams a repeatable environment for security validation, regression exercises and secure-design training across the UAS stack.
Universities & Research
Enabling secure, collaborative defense research and technology transfer for academic consortia. Provide students and researchers with resettable UAS cyber labs, instructor-led exercises, class cohorts and measurable practical assignments.
Cybersecurity Teams
Extend Red Team, Blue Team and incident-response skills from traditional IT into cyber-physical and autonomous systems.
Platform
Simulation, cyber, mission and evidence — working together.
Responsible Use
Authorized. Isolated. Simulated.
ZoneOfWar is designed for authorized education, research, product security and resilience testing. Every mission runs inside an isolated environment, and accounts must accept our acceptable-use and rules-of-engagement terms before entering hands-on labs.
Read Responsible Use →Pricing
Start in the cloud. Scale to private ranges.
Academic
Universities, research centers & university-affiliated organizations
Institutional License
per course, program or site
- Instructor dashboard and class cohorts
- Assignment and performance reporting
- Research sandbox for applied UAS-security work
- Technology-transfer pathway to sponsored research
Corporate
Defense contractors, large enterprises & industry partners
Enterprise Agreement
annual term, scoped to your organization
- SSO (SAML / OIDC) & private tenancy or on-prem
- Regression-testable mission library for product-security validation
- Custom mission development for proprietary hardware/firmware
- Audit-ready reporting for supply-chain attestations
Government
Ministries of Defense, military branches & government agencies
Contract Vehicle
negotiated per engagement or program
- Mission-ready scenarios matched to doctrine & ROE
- Private, on-prem or classified-adjacent deployment
- Custom mission development
- Dedicated support & instructor-supervised HITL labs
Resources
Research and threat intelligence for UAS defenders.
researchblogblog
Resilience, Not Just Security: Designing UAS to Fail Safely
Why resilient mission design — not just prevention — is the right frame for cyber-physical autonomous systems.
Why Cyber Ranges Beat Slide Decks for Drone Security Training
Why persistent, scored cyber-range missions build UAS security skills faster than lecture-based courses alone.
MAVLink and Telemetry Security: Core Concepts for Defenders
The core concepts defenders need to reason about MAVLink and similar command-and-telemetry protocols, without a single exploit recipe.