Abstract:
The revolution of mobile phones era has
brought the innovative smartphones technology. As a
result, research addressing information access in
smartphones environment has proliferated. The
important feature in security of smartphones is to
restrict the behavior of users using applications and
services. In the meantime, the existing security
mechanism on Android mostly holds a coarse-grained
and incomplete security model. To enhance this into
fine-grained manner, it is practical to use contextrelated
information to specify precisely what
resources and services an application should be
authorized access to. While the concept of contextrelated
security mechanism is not new, challenges are
facing to adopt this technology to its full potential. In
this paper, we attempt to review the existing finegrained
context-aware models. These approaches
differ regarding of how control is initiated e.g. via
SMS messages, how context is activated e.g. manually
or automatically etc. From this study, we intend to
build simpler as well as clear security control
mechanism based on user context such as access
patterns of resource or working set. We also aim to
apply classification technique in the decision making
process for access control without user intervention.
This paper is initial endeavor of our research
proposal.
