Android Security Analysis Final Report

Abstract

According to recent worldwide sales figures reported by Gartner [1], Android is the most popular operating system (OS) when considering all general-purpose computing platforms (smartphones, tablets, laptops, and PCs). Mobile OSes such as Android introduce new security architectures designed with the experience of past lessons learned from traditional computing platforms. Most notably, Android provides a sandbox for applications (hereinafter apps") which isolates app data and code execution from other apps [2]. Android places security controls on allowed interactions between apps, and between each app and underlying device resources. The Android security architecture is designed to provide protection from malicious app behaviors, and to increase resilience to prevent or minimize the impact of exploitation of security vulnerabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1107880

Entities

People

  • Andrew Pyles
  • Gananand Kini
  • Michael Peck

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Html
  • Markup Languages
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Security Protocols
  • Software Development
  • Text Messaging
  • Web Browsers
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Strategic Security Studies