TY - GEN
T1 - A secure smartphone applications roll-out scheme
AU - Mylonas, Alexios
AU - Tsoumas, Bill
AU - Dritsas, Stelios
AU - Gritzalis, Dimitris
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The adoption of smartphones, devices transforming from simple communication devices to smart and multipurpose devices, is constantly increasing. Amongst the main reasons for their vast pervasiveness are their small size, their enhanced functionality, as well as their ability to host many useful and attractive applications. Furthermore, recent studies estimate that application installation in smartphones acquired from official application repositories, such as the Apple Store, will continue to increase. In this context, the official application repositories might become attractive to attackers trying to distribute malware via these repositories. The paper examines the security inefficiencies related to application distribution via application repositories. Our contribution focuses on surveying the application management procedures enforced during application distribution in the popular smartphone platforms (i.e. Android, Black-Berry, Apple iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone), as well as on proposing a scheme for an application management system suited for secure application distribution via application repositories.
AB - The adoption of smartphones, devices transforming from simple communication devices to smart and multipurpose devices, is constantly increasing. Amongst the main reasons for their vast pervasiveness are their small size, their enhanced functionality, as well as their ability to host many useful and attractive applications. Furthermore, recent studies estimate that application installation in smartphones acquired from official application repositories, such as the Apple Store, will continue to increase. In this context, the official application repositories might become attractive to attackers trying to distribute malware via these repositories. The paper examines the security inefficiencies related to application distribution via application repositories. Our contribution focuses on surveying the application management procedures enforced during application distribution in the popular smartphone platforms (i.e. Android, Black-Berry, Apple iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone), as well as on proposing a scheme for an application management system suited for secure application distribution via application repositories.
KW - Mobile Applications
KW - Security
KW - Smartphone
KW - Software Roll-out
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052791491&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052791491
SN - 9783642228896
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 49
EP - 61
BT - Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business - 8th International Conference, TrustBus 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 8th International Conference on Trust Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2011
Y2 - 29 August 2011 through 2 September 2011
ER -