Smartphone Device – Level Policy Enforcement

Smartphone use continues to grow rapidly. With this growth, come significantly more challenging security and privacy threats than preceding generations of mobile devices given that they exist as completely developed computing platforms running established operating systems. Smartphones, therefore, are largely subject to similar malware and attack vectors that have grown to be commonplace within standard computer systems, potentially disrupt and possibly take down carrier’s mobile networks. The purpose of this internship is to research and develop a prototype solution for introducing a mobile device-level control and measurement software as a solution to aid in addressing these issues. This research would be focused on pushing down and enforcing network-level carrier policy directives at the smartphone device-level. The result of this internship will be a proof of concept system illustrating a system implement on an Android OS and a research paper documenting the processes and results of the research.

Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Darcie

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate