Abstract
The introduction of smart phones in the mid-2000s forever changed
the way users interact with data and computation--and through it
prompted a renaissance of digital innovation. Yet, at the same time,
the architectures, applications and services that fostered this new
reality fundamentally altered the relationship between users and
security and privacy. In this talk I map the scientific community's
evolving efforts over the last decade in evaluating smart phone
application security and privacy. I consider several key scientific
questions and explore the methods and tools used to answer them.
Through this exposition, I show how our joint understanding of
adversary and industry practices have matured over time, and briefly
consider how these results have informed and shaped technical public
policy in the United States. I conclude with a discussion of the open
problems and opportunities in mobile device security and privacy.
Speaker's Biography
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Patrick McDaniel is a Distinguished Professor in the School of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Pennsylvania State
University, Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, and Director of the Institute
for Networking and Security Research. Professor McDaniel is also the
program manager and lead scientist for the Army Research Laboratory's
Cyber-Security Collaborative Research Alliance. Patrick's research
focuses on a wide range of topics in computer and network security
and technical public policy. Prior to joining Penn State in 2004,
he was a senior research staff member at AT&T Labs-Research.
His website is at
https://www.patrickmcdaniel.org/ .
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