LogicDroid : security policy editor

System security of portable devices like hand phone plays an important role in the modern era for protecting the sensitive information. Android, as the most widely used mobile operating system, is given considerable attention by the public. LogicDroid is customized Android OS aimed to make improv...

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Main Author: Song, Jiaying
Other Authors: Alwen Fernanto Tiu
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-667752023-03-03T20:50:28Z LogicDroid : security policy editor Song, Jiaying Alwen Fernanto Tiu School of Computer Engineering DRNTU::Engineering System security of portable devices like hand phone plays an important role in the modern era for protecting the sensitive information. Android, as the most widely used mobile operating system, is given considerable attention by the public. LogicDroid is customized Android OS aimed to make improvement on Android security mechanism to prevent privilege escalation attack. The main idea of LogicDroid is adding a run-time monitor to detect privilege escalation attacks based on the policy specified by end users. To update the policy in LogicDroid monitor, the XML format of the policy needs to be created and stored on the smartphone. This process is error-prone and tedious for normal users. To improve the usability, a policy editor was developed in this Final Year Project to enable the automatic updating of policy through graphical user interface. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2016-04-26T02:21:46Z 2016-04-26T02:21:46Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66775 en Nanyang Technological University 61 p. application/pdf
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LogicDroid : security policy editor
description System security of portable devices like hand phone plays an important role in the modern era for protecting the sensitive information. Android, as the most widely used mobile operating system, is given considerable attention by the public. LogicDroid is customized Android OS aimed to make improvement on Android security mechanism to prevent privilege escalation attack. The main idea of LogicDroid is adding a run-time monitor to detect privilege escalation attacks based on the policy specified by end users. To update the policy in LogicDroid monitor, the XML format of the policy needs to be created and stored on the smartphone. This process is error-prone and tedious for normal users. To improve the usability, a policy editor was developed in this Final Year Project to enable the automatic updating of policy through graphical user interface.
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title LogicDroid : security policy editor
title_short LogicDroid : security policy editor
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