EasyGuard: enhanced context-aware adaptive access control system for android platform
Bingfei Ren, Chuanchang Liu, Bo Hao Cheng, Shuangxi Hong, Shuai Zhao, Junliang Chen · 2016
Applications in Android often have the ability of accessing sensitive resources on mobile devices. These resources have different levels of security and usage constraint in scenarios which have different requirements for privacy. Therefore, it is in demand for users to have fine-grained privacy protection and resources usage constraint that taking the context information into account, which is not supported by inherent access control mechanism of Android. To address these issues, we designed and implemented an enhanced context-aware adaptive access control system (EasyGuard) in Android to provide adaptive access control automatically when the specific context is detected according to the pre-configured policies. In addition, we developed an application to facilitate users that have little domain knowledge in android to configure policies reasonably. Experimental results show that users can easily protect their privacy, security and save energy of mobile devices through this system.