Keynote Address Android: Securing a Mobile Platform from the Ground Up
Rich Cannings, Android Security Leader, Google
Android is an open source mobile platform designed to support easy and open development of mobile applications. Our challenge was to design a platform that balanced our goal of open development and user choice with the unique challenges of securing a consumer-focused mobile system.
Keeping both historic and modern threats in mind, we used various approaches to protect the user and the carrier: cryptography, exploit mitigation features, system updates, UI design, and reuse of UNIX security features in a novel way.
To illustrate the security features of Android, we will describe real examples of security vulnerabilities we have encountered since launch.
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title = {Keynote Address Android: Securing a Mobile Platform from the Ground Up},
year = {2009},
address = {Montreal, Quebec},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}