Abstract:
Smartphone security research has become very popular in response to the
rapid, world-wide adoption of new platforms such as Android and iOS.
Smartphones are characterized by their ability run third-party
applications, and Android and iOS take this concept to the extreme,
offering hundreds of thousands of "apps" through application markets.
Thus, smartphone security research has focused on protecting users from
apps.  In this talk, I will discuss the current state of smartphone
research, including efforts in designing new OS protection mechanisms,
as well as performing security analysis of real apps. I will offer
insight into what works, what has clear limitations, and promising
directions for future research.