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Benchmarking User-defined Security Configuration Of Mobile Devices
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978-1-5090-5120-5
2016 Seventh Latin-american Symposium On Dependable Computing(ladc). Ieee, p. 172 - 175, 2016.
WOS:000391209800024
10.1109/LADC.2016.35
Autor
Vecchiato
Daniel; Martins
Eliane
Institución
Resumen
The popularization of smartphones and tablets and their increasing usage turns them into an attractive target for cyber attackers. This, together with the fact that many organizations employ a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, make assessing and comparing the security of mobile devices a key issue, in particular in what regards user-defined configurations as these have a huge impact on the potential attack surface. In order to allow characterizing the relative security level of mobile devices with respect to user configurations, this paper proposes a research towards a benchmarking approach to compare and rank mobile devices, with respect to their security. Preliminary results show that Android users neglect important security recommendations while configuring their devices and that benchmarking is indeed a good way to identify the most secure user-defined configuration. 172 175 7th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC) OCT 19-21, 2016 Cali, COLOMBIA