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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Context-Aware Monitoring of Untrusted Mobile Applications
Authors : Andrew Brown, Mark Ryan
Published in: Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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
execution monitoring
, 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.