Title: Securing Android Applications using Location Based Policy Specification Languages
Abstract:
Nowadays, Smart phones have become very popular in the market. Their
rich computational and communication capabilities have led to the
dramatic rise in mobile applications. Excessive use of mobile device
applications has greatly increased threats to the security and privacy
of users. Security mechanisms for mobile device applications are
currently limited, so users need more expressive ways to ensure that
downloaded mobile applications do not act maliciously. In recent years,
numerous policy specification languages have been developed to address
the growing need in to express and verify that software in a wide
variety of domains meets various security constraints.
Policy-specification languages enable centralized security modules to
be specified as a policy. Other policy specification language for
mobile applications has been developed by researchers. However, most
have been limited to access control-based policies. Location based
policy specification language (LoPSiL) provides the opportunity to
develop location-based policies and allows the enforcement of
user-defined policies on third-party applications to make them
trustworthy aapplications.