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Enhancing Security And Privacy For Mobile Systems

Krupp, Brian Michael
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6815-5621
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432156543

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2015, Doctor of Engineering, Cleveland State University, Washkewicz College of Engineering.
With the growing trend of mobile device utilization and recent exploitation of both security and privacy, there is a growing need to ensure that the security and privacy controls of these devices are sound. Standard controls that are provided as part of the operating system do not allow the level of control to let the user decide not only if an application can access their data, but what other operations can the application perform with their data. Solutions to this problem have been researched with a focus primarily on providing a custom operating system by rooting/jailbreaking a device. However this approach is not sustainable as each minor update to the operating system requires a new modified OS and the user to install the custom OS. Additionally a user jailbreaking or rooting the device requires the user to know how to perform the operation correctly and they can lose the inherent trust provided by the OS. In this dissertation research, we focus on solving the problem of providing enhanced security and privacy controls for mobile operating systems without requiring modification to the operating system. Through this research our contributions are as follows: 1) We provide a security and privacy enhanced framework that provides the user with fine grained control of security and privacy of their mobile device. 2) We provide a formal ontology for describing the policy, knowledge and activity used to enforce the policy, and describe their relationships. 3) We provide a web based proxy solution that can be utilized to effectively enforce the policies described in the aforementioned ontology without requiring modification to the operating system or application. From our contributions, we provide sustainable solutions to the problem of providing fine grained security and privacy controls for mobile devices without compromising the experience and exhausting the resources that exist on a mobile device.
Wenbing Zhao (Advisor)
Nigamanth Sridhar (Advisor)
Chansu Yu (Committee Member)
Yongjian Fu (Committee Member)
Timothy Arndt (Committee Member)
148 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science

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  • Krupp, B. M. (2015). Enhancing Security And Privacy For Mobile Systems [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432156543

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Krupp, Brian. Enhancing Security And Privacy For Mobile Systems. 2015. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432156543.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Krupp, Brian. "Enhancing Security And Privacy For Mobile Systems." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432156543

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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