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MISSION 011Red Teamadvanced

Supply Chain Surprise

Trace unexpected software behavior to a component or configuration change.

45 minindividual modevirtual

A simulated UAS starts behaving in a way that doesn’t match its documented configuration. Nothing was reported as changed — but something clearly is different.

You investigate firmware, configuration and third-party component history inside the sandbox to trace the discrepancy back to its source, then frame the finding the way a product-security engineer would communicate it to an engineering team: what changed, why it matters, and how to prevent recurrence.

Supply Chain Surprise is an advanced mission in the UAS Red Team Practitioner and UAS Product Security Engineer learning paths.

Learning outcomes

  • Trace unexpected behavior back to a component or configuration source
  • Reason about supply-chain and configuration risk in UAS software
  • Communicate findings for engineering remediation

Prerequisites

  • MAVLink Trust Boundary

Domains

EmbeddedFlight Control

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