38 Toward Engineering a Secure Android Ecosystem: a Survey of Existing Techniques
Toward Engineering a Secure Android Ecosystem: A Survey of Existing Techniques MENG XU, CHENGYU SONG, YANG JI, MING-WEI SHIH, KANGJIE LU, CONG ZHENG, RUIAN DUAN, YEONGJIN JANG, BYOUNGYOUNG LEE, CHENXIONG QIAN, SANGHO LEE, and TAESOO KIM, Georgia Institute of Technology The openness and extensibility of Android have made it a popular platform for mobile devices and a strong candidate to drive the Internet-of-Things. Unfortunately, these properties also leave Android vulnerable, attracting attacks for profit or fun. To mitigate these threats, numerous issue-specific solutions have been proposed. With the increasing number and complexity of security problems and solutions, we believe this is the right moment to step back and systematically re-evaluate the Android security architecture and security practices in the ecosystem. We organize the most recent security research on the Android platform into two categories: the software stack and the ecosystem. For each category, we provide a comprehensive narrative of the problem space, highlight the limitations of the proposed solutions, and identify open problems for future research. Based on our collection of knowledge, we envision a blueprint for engineering a secure, next-generationr Android ecosystem. CCS Concepts: Security and privacy → Mobile platform security; Malware and its mitigation;Social aspects of security and privacy Additional Key Words and Phrases: Android, mobile malware, survey, ecosystem ACM Reference Format: Meng Xu, Chengyu Song, Yang Ji, Ming-Wei Shih, Kangjie Lu, Cong Zheng, Ruian Duan, Yeongjin Jang, Byoungyoung Lee, Chenxiong Qian, Sangho Lee, and Taesoo Kim. 2016. Toward engineering a secure android ecosystem: A survey of existing techniques. ACM Comput.
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