@inproceedings{6ebc35dab4e0414b922bb11440c93205,
title = "Proactive restart as cyber maneuver for Android",
abstract = "Moving-target defense is an effective strategy for deflecting cyber attacks. The widespread use of smartphones in the tactical field requires novel ways of securing smartphones against an ever-increasing number of zero-day attacks. We propose a new, proactive approach for securing smartphone apps against certain classes of attacks. We leverage smartphone's native support for quick and lossless restarts to make application restart a cyber maneuver meant to deflect and confuse attackers. We propose a time-series entropy metric to quantify attack resilience. We apply our approach to 12 popular Android apps chosen from a variety of domains, including online banking and shopping. Preliminary experiments with using proactive restarts on these apps show that restart is a promising way of increasing attack resilience for a certain class of side-channel attacks named Activity Inference attacks.",
keywords = "Androids, Computer security, Graphical user interfaces, Humanoid robots, Smart phones, Time series analysis",
author = "Zhiyong Shan and Iulian Neamtiu and Zhiyun Qian and Don Torrieri",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 34th Annual IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2015 ; Conference date: 26-10-2015 Through 28-10-2015",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/MILCOM.2015.7357412",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "19--24",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2015",
address = "United States",
}