2012 Symposium Posters

Project Members
Pelin Angin, Bharat Bhargava

The proliferation of mobile devices has made them increasingly exposed to security risks, with attackers shifting their targets towards these due to their increased use in daily life. This work focuses on the security risks current mobile device architectures are prone to in terms of leakage of sensitive information due to multiple applications sharing the same resources (i.e. application co-tenancy). In this work, we propose a virtualization-based approach to isolate security-critical applications from others running on the same mobile device. The proposed approach for isolating applications is based on running security critical applications in their own virtual machines, which allows for separation of the data space of these from that of other applications on the same device.