Drone proliferation has crossed a threshold. For the security decision-makers who responded to this globalsurvey, managing international airports, correctional facilities, seaports, and critical infrastructure acrossfive regions, unauthorized unmanned aircraft systems are no longer an emerging concern. They are a daily operational reality.
What this research reveals is not that operators are unaware of the threat, they are acutely aware. The crisis is that awareness has not translated into capability. The industry knows exactly what is needed and is largely unable to deliver it, constrained by detection gaps, regulatory barriers, fragmented systems, and an absence of the standardized frameworks that effective response requires.
That gap is the central finding of this report. And it is the defining challenge facing airport and infrastructure security leaders today.
