CA-ARBAC: Privacy preserving using context-aware role-based access control on Android permission system

Abdella, J., Özuysal, M. and Tomur, E. (2016) CA-ARBAC: Privacy preserving using context-aware role-based access control on Android permission system. Security and Communication Networks, 9 (18). pp. 5977-5995. ISSN 1939-0114

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Abstract

Existing mobile platforms are based on manual way of granting and revoking permissions to applications. Once the user grants a given permission to an application, the application can use it without limit, unless the user manually revokes the permission. This has become the reason for many privacy problems because of the fact that a permission that is harmless at some occasion may be very dangerous at another condition. One of the promising solutions for this problem is context-aware access control at permission level that allows dynamic granting and denying of permissions based on some predefined context. However, dealing with policy configuration at permission level becomes very complex for the user as the number of policies to configure will become very large. For instance, if there are A applications, P permissions, and C contexts, the user may have to deal with A × P × C number of policy configurations. Therefore, we propose a context-aware role-based access control model that can provide dynamic permission granting and revoking while keeping the number of policies as small as possible. Although our model can be used for all mobile platforms, we use Android platform to demonstrate our system. In our model, Android applications are assigned roles where roles contain a set of permissions and contexts are associated with permissions. Permissions are activated and deactivated for the containing role based on the associated contexts. Our approach is unique in that our system associates contexts with permissions as opposed to existing similar works that associate contexts with roles. As a proof of concept, we have developed a prototype application called context-aware Android role-based access control. We have also performed various tests using our application, and the result shows that our model is working as desired.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Uncontrolled Keywords: context,permissions,privacy,roles,usability,information systems,computer networks and communications ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1710
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 18 Aug 2022 12:30
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 07:56
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/87443
DOI: 10.1002/sec.1750

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