Virtualization as an enabler for security in mobile devices

Brakensiek, J.; Dröge, Axel; Botteck, Martin; Härtig, Hermann; Lackorzyński, Adam

doi:10.1145/1435458.1435462

Cited by 44 publications

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“…Virtualisation is a feature that, as research has shown, adds to the overall security of the system, in various ways. Firstly, it seems to be a remedy for facing the severe security challenges that mobile devices have, given that they are usually targeting a completely open setup . In addition, efficient virtual machines have successfully been implemented in micro‐kernel‐based systems, thus enabling the reuse of arbitrary operating systems .…”

Section: Node Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedded Systems Security: A Survey of EU Research Efforts

Manifavas

Fysarakis

Παπανικολάου

et al. 2014

Security Comm Networks

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Embedded systems security is a recurring theme in current research efforts, brought in the limelight by the wide adoption of ubiquitous devices. Significant funding has been allocated to various European projects on this subject area, in order to investigate and overcome the various security challenges. This paper provides an overview of recent EU research efforts pertaining to embedded systems security, where several prominent security issues and the respective proposed approaches are presented. Surveying relatively recent EU research projects, the authors identify 20 such projects that focus on embedded systems security aspects. The investigated technologies are categorised using a layered approach, to facilitate the presentation of the results; the categories comprise the node, network, and middleware and overlay layers, as well as architectures, frameworks and formal validation of the security of embedded systems. From this survey, certain patterns emerge regarding the issues investigated and the technologies researchers focus on, in order to address the said issues. Finally, the existing open issues are summarised, and directions for future research are given. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Node Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedded Systems Security: A Survey of EU Research Efforts

Manifavas

Fysarakis

Παπανικολάου

et al. 2014

Security Comm Networks

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“…Virtualization as mean to provide security in embedded systems was discussed in [5]. Previous attempts to actual use virtualization on embedded systems have mostly been focused on porting of widely used virtualization layers such as Xen [6], [7] or on performance analysis aspects [8].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Securing DMA through virtualization

Schwarz¹,

Gehrmann²

2012

2012 Complexity in Engineering (COMPENG). Proceedings

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Abstract-We present a solution for preventing guests in a virtualized system from using direct memory access (DMA) to access memory regions of other guests. The principles we suggest, and that we also have implemented, are purely based on software and standard hardware. No additional virtualization hardware such as an I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) is needed. Instead, the protection of the DMA controller is realized with means of a common ARM MMU only. Overhead occurs only in pre-and postprocessing of DMA transfers and is limited to a few microseconds. The solution was designed with focus on security and the abstract concept of the approach was formally verified.

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“…The role and limitations of virtualization in embedded systems were discussed in another research [9]. In a paper [10], the authors proposed to use virtualization to address the security issues in mobile devices.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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A new way of MMS vulnerability detection based on virtual machine

Liu

Shen

2010

2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology

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As the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is becoming more popular, they become a attractive target for attacker. Unfortunately, at present, there are few tools to analyze the vulnerability of MMS because of the different kinds of agents and the communications trouble of Mobile and PC. This paper presents a novel approach to solve these problem. Our approach implement a virtual machine to simulate MMS system. It could construct a fuzzer to send wellconnected data to agent to make overflow. Furthermore, this method provides a great deal of API for invoking which could help analyzer get more detail of the mobile. In addition, we show a new way to fuzzing MMS under the Cross-Platform condition. Empirical testing indicates that our approach can detect the vulnerability of MMS effectively.

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Virtualization as an enabler for security in mobile devices

Cited by 44 publications

References 11 publications

Embedded Systems Security: A Survey of EU Research Efforts

Embedded Systems Security: A Survey of EU Research Efforts

Securing DMA through virtualization

A new way of MMS vulnerability detection based on virtual machine

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