Paper Info
Title
A probabilistic cost-efficient approach for mobile security assessment
Abstract
The development of mobile technologies and services has contributed to the large-scale deployment of smartphones and tablets. These environments are exposed to a wide range of security attacks and may contain critical information about users such as contact directories and phone calls. Assessing configuration vulnerabilities is a key challenge for maintaining their security, but this activity should be performed in a lightweight manner in order to minimize the impact on their scarce resources. In this paper we present a novel approach for assessing configuration vulnerabilities in mobile devices by using a probabilistic cost-efficient security framework. We put forward a probabilistic assessment strategy supported by a mathematical model and detail our assessment framework based on OVAL vulnerability descriptions. We also describe an implementation prototype and evaluate its feasibility through a comprehensive set of experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727842
Network and Service Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile computing,mobile radio,probability,telecommunication security,OVAL vulnerability description,configuration vulnerability,mobile security assessment,mobile services,mobile technology,probabilistic assessment strategy,probabilistic cost-efficient security framework,security attack,smartphones,tablets
Mobile technology,Mobile computing,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Security service,Cloud computing security,Mobile Web,Probabilistic logic,Security information and event management,Computer security model
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2165-9605
2
0.40
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martín Barrère171.81
Gaetan Hurel2162.96
Remi Badonnel315422.43
Olivier Festor466585.40