Mobile Device Security

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Background: FireDroid enables organisations and end-users to retain control of corporate data across mobile devices by: •    Controlling the behaviour of Apps by providing an extensible set of security policies that can be enforced without the need of repackaging or modifying the Apps or the underlying OS. •    Seamlessly separating personal and corporate data using standard native Apps without disrupting the user experience. •    Allowing real-time monitoring of corporate data     access and dissemination patterns and singling out abnormal or suspicious behaviours as soon as they happen. FireDroid targets Android and monitors and mediates ALL application behaviour through a policy based mechanism with low overhead.  Among others, FireDroid provides the following main features: Patching: Critically, it enables quick patching of vulnerabilities, such as the well-publicised Heartbleed. Patches can be developed using an IDE extension coupled with a cloud-based management console to deploy patches Over-The-Air to the enrolled devices.  Native App Control: Dissemination of corporate data (such as emails, attachments, business meeting details, etc.) is strictly controlled using unmodified native Apps.  FireDroid can stop the native email client sending corporate data to unauthorized or non-corporate recipients. Additionally, attachments can be viewed and edited by only corporate authorised Apps. Per-app Policies: Pre-installed system Apps and third-party Apps downloaded by the user can be controlled independently allowing administrators to specify App-specific policies. Furthermore, app domains can be used to provide a higher degree of control and productivity.  Only corporate Apps can have access to the corporate VPN and use corporate-grade data encryption. Access to corporate data and/or specific device resources can be defined independently for each App.