Smartphone Virtualization for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security
Chuan-Yu Cho, Hou-Cheng Lin, Anthony Anthony · 電腦與通訊 · 2016
With a more than 30% rapid growth in global smartphone dispersion in last few years, not only are people experiencing exponential increase in convenience from intelligent application services, the continuous breakthroughs on end-device computing have also caused more and more smartphones entering enterprise network environment. Massive and various user -installed apps and services are prone to bring numerously potential security threats directly into enterprise network without any firewall protection. Using MDM (Mobile Device Management) to add strict security policies and monitoring may improve the BYOD securi ty management, but it still encounters a great challenge to strike a balance between security and convenience. In this paper, two smartphone virtualization technologies - Virtualized Smartphone and Virtual Mobile Infrastructure - are proposed to provide a best balance between security management and user convenience. The prototype solutions have been successfully implemented and demoed using generally available commercial smartphones, and the performance evaluation results also support the proposed solutions that are able to provide a close-to-native smartphone user experience.