SkySafe has introduced a new tool designed to make prosecuting malicious drone operators more attainable. As drone misuse escalates around critical infrastructure, public events and restricted airspace, law enforcement agencies have largely focused on detecting rogue aircraft and tracking their operators. But as incidents grow more complex and persistent, the response is shifting toward the courtroom.
The company unveiled Forensics as a Service (FaaS), a subscription-based program that gives law enforcement, public safety teams and select critical infrastructure operators an end-to-end capability for investigating drone incursions. The service blends traditional device forensics with SkySafe’s cloud-based airspace intelligence to help agencies link recovered drones, or even unrecovered aircraft, to specific incidents and operators.
“FaaS provides law enforcement and government agencies with end-to-end drone forensic capability from device recovery to courtroom-ready evidence,” SkySafe Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Swisher said in an email statement.
The new service pulls flight logs, serial numbers and onboard metadata from recovered drones using SkySafe’s Covert Forensic Imaging Device tools. That information is fused with SkySafe Cloud data, which catalogues historical drone activity, flight paths and identification records. By correlating the two sources, investigators receive a verified forensic report that meets chain-of-custody and evidentiary standards, enabling prosecutors to tie a specific drone to an airspace violation.
SkySafe plans to make FaaS available to U.S. customers in law enforcement, public safety and certain approved private organizations responsible for securing critical sites.
In cases where a drone is recovered, FaaS extracts and decrypts onboard data before matching it to SkySafe Cloud detections. This can reveal launch points, flight behavior and repeat patterns that help attribute the aircraft to a specific operator. When a drone is not recovered, SkySafe’s airspace intelligence can still offer investigative leads from radio frequency and telemetry data, including likely operator locations and recurring activity in restricted zones.
“Delivering this level of airspace intelligence gives organizations the ability to truly understand and control what’s happening in their skies,” Swisher said. “Forensics as a Service is the missing piece that completes that picture, turning every incident into actionable, admissible evidence.”
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