Research Article
Context-Aware Monitoring of Untrusted Mobile Applications
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_8, author={Andrew Brown and Mark Ryan}, title={Context-Aware Monitoring of Untrusted Mobile Applications}, proceedings={Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems. First International ICST Conference, MobiSec 2009, Turin, Italy, June 3-5, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBISEC}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_8} }- Andrew Brown
Mark Ryan
Year: 2012
Context-Aware Monitoring of Untrusted Mobile Applications
MOBISEC
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_8
Abstract
Current measures to enhance the security of untrusted mobile applications require a user to trust the software vendor. They do not guarantee complete protection against the behaviours that mobile malware commonly exhibits. This paper expands , building a more precise system to prevent mobile applications deviating from their intended functions. User judgements about program execution can be specified abstractly and compiled into a monitor capable of identifying an event’s context. We demonstrate our development of a prototype system for the BlackBerry platform and show how it can defend the device against unseen malware more effectively than existing security tools.
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