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Towards Self-aware Approach for Mobile Devices Security

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Computer Network Security (MMM-ACNS 2017)

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We present conceptual design of self-aware security for mobile devices. The design is envisioned to bring self-awareness into the mobile devices security for optimal protection by regulating application activities. The proposed design contains three subsystems: meta-level enables self-awareness, extended meta-level extends protections to the base-level components through security mechanisms and base-level comprises of resources that are essential for applications execution. The presented design enables cooperation among security mechanisms (such as access control and anti-virus) as well as with self-aware agent. The cooperation is intended for better understanding of application activities that leads to recognizing threat patterns in advance. When a threat is predicted/detected, the self-aware agent communicates with the security mechanisms so that they can take the necessary actions. The design of the security mechanisms are elaborated using access control system and anti-virus as example cases.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation), DIMECC Oy, and the Cyber Trust research program for their support.

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  1. Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Nanda Kumar Thanigaivelan, Ethiopia Nigussie, Seppo Virtanen & Jouni Isoaho

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  1. Gdansk University of Technology , Gdansk, Poland

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Thanigaivelan, N.K., Nigussie, E., Virtanen, S., Isoaho, J. (2017). Towards Self-aware Approach for Mobile Devices Security. In: Rak, J., Bay, J., Kotenko, I., Popyack, L., Skormin, V., Szczypiorski, K. (eds) Computer Network Security. MMM-ACNS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10446. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65127-9_14

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