March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 24m
English
Content preview from Wireless and Mobile Device Security, 2nd Edition
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CHAPTER SUMMARY
The use of application provenance and sandboxing is common among the three main mobile platforms and has proven to be a sound foundation for securing mobile devices. Application provenance helps to ensure that developers and applications are vetted before applications are released. Sandboxing helps ensure that applications are self-contained so that issues with one application do not affect others.
The efficacy of the application provenance model is essentially proven by the fact that the one platform that does not use this model is the one that has the most issues with malware. Also, most issues on those platforms that do use this model are the result of users circumventing provenance control.
Beyond the device-specific security ...