Multi-stakeholders' Policy Enforcement for Android

摘要

Over the past few decades, the technological advancements in cell phones have brought a dramatic variation in life. Innovative applications and enchanting services provided by smartphones makes it the most ubiquitous consumer electronic device. Therefore smartphone has become paramount source for accessing, storing and sharing of business, personal, social, entertainment and official data. The complexities in handling the data and resource access brings new challenges in preserving user's privacy and access to sensitive resources. Though a lot of work has been done to provide secure access control for desktop and web based collaboration systems, a robust and sophisticated system for mobile device is today's demand. In this work, a security and privacy enhanced mobile framework for a multi-stakeholder environment is proposed. In doing so, the access and usage control requirements from multiple stakeholders have been taken in account. The developed framework is a light weight implementation of access control and privacy protection using secure policy enforcement.