GNSS-Check - GNSS risk assessment tool

The current situation in Ukraine gives cause for concern. As early as 2014, as part of the Crimean crisis, massive GNSS interference attacks were detected and documented as part of an EU project (UKRAINE), with an impact on the critical infrastructure there (airport - GBAS failure, mobile phone companies - synchronization failure). In recent years, the number of such incidents has increased dramatically globally, and it can be assumed that such incidents will also occur in Austria in the future. The critical infrastructure represents a particularly sensitive area of the Austrian state. For this reason, the Austrian program for the protection of critical infrastructures was established in 2008 and, based on this, further developed in 2014 (APCIP, 2014). In order to increase resilience in Austria, cooperation between business and the state is required. A central factor for the protection of critical infrastructure is the security culture in the respective organization, which manifests itself in the context of values, attitudes, behaviour patterns and artefacts. So far, safety culture in organizations has mainly been studied in connection with accidents. On the other hand, GNSS technologies and applications have become increasingly important in recent years and are now affecting large parts of everyday life. It is often overlooked that many of our daily activities depend directly or at least indirectly on GNSS services. One of the largest indirect dependencies arises from the fact that many industrial Stakeholders, applications and operators of critical infrastructure rely (at least partially) on GNSS. Surveys of Austrian stakeholders showed that awareness of the vulnerability of GNSS signals to damage is still rather low. The main reason for this is the lack of knowledge in the user community about how GNSS signals work and what they can do. Due to the fact that signal interference and other disturbing events will increase due to technical possibilities and increased use, the potential for danger will also increase. Therefore, it is inevitable to take action now to better protect GNSS users, especially those of critical infrastructure, in the future. Development of a tool that, by consolidating research results achieved so far, supports GNSS users to understand the use of GNSS services in their applications and to be able to assess the associated risk. It enables Austrian stakeholders to quantify the effects of the GNSS loss on critical national infrastructure, applications and organizations. It will allow a systematic assessment of the risks of loss or dropping of GNSS signals, services or applications. The results are intended to be applicable to a variety of users with different needs, different GNSS applications, different threats/vulnerabilities and different levels of expertise. It will enable Austrian authorities to quantify GNSS dependency and analyze resilience at organizational, industrial and national levels. The tool will allow analysis and comparison between organisations, industries, developments over time, etc. The project results are technical requirements and a design proposal or an implementation guide for a GNSS risk management tool.