A threat monitoring system for smart mobiles in enterprise networks

Abstract

With the development of modern mobile operating systems, computing and communication technologies, smart mobile devices have been widely used to support rich applications and have been integrated to enterprise networks for various organizations. With accessing sensitive personal and business information, the security of smart mobile devices has become a serious problem for enterprise networks. To address this issue, we developed a threat monitoring system to monitor and detect threats on mobile devices in enterprise networks. In our system, the detection related information will be collected by mobile devices and transmitted to the operation center, which will further monitor and detect threats by using both signature and anomaly based detection schemes. Using real-world benign and malware samples, our experimental data shows that our developed system can accurately and effectively detect malware on the Android platform with a low overhead to the system in terms of energy and CPU usage.