Exploring SE for Android

by William Confer, William Roberts

Overview

You will start by exploring the nature of the security mechanisms behind Linux and SELinux, and as you complete the chapters, you will integrate and enable SE for Android into a System on Chip (SoC), a process that, prior to this book, has never before been documented in its entirety! Discover Android's unique user space, from its use of the common UID and GID model to promote its security goals to its custom binder IPC mechanism. Explore the interface between the kernel and user space with respect to SELinux and investigate contexts and labels and their application to system objects.

This book will help you develop the necessary skills to evaluate and engineer secured products with the Android platform, whether you are new to world of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) or experienced in secure system deployment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784393892
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	02/24/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

William Confer has been engineering embedded and mobile systems since 1997. He has worked for Samsung Mobile as a managing staff engineer and currently teaches computer science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He holds a patent in low-cost character recognition for extremely resource-limited devices and has multiple other patents pending for mobile technologies.

William Roberts is a software engineer who is focused on OS-level security and platform enhancements. He is one of the engineers who founded the Samsung KNOX product and an early adopter of SE for Android. He has made contributions to several open source projects, such as SE for Android, the Android Open Source Project, the Linux Kernel, CyanogenMod, and OpenSC. His recent interests have taken him to Smart Card technologies and the virtualization of smart cards. In his spare time, he works with Dr. Confer on the Miniat project (http://www.miniat.org), a virtual, embedded architecture simulator.