2016/05/27 by Uri Kanonov, Kanonov, Uri, Avishai Wool +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Digital and Cyber Forensics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Security and Verification in Computing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.08567
openalex publication_date 2016/05/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a growing trend among enterprises, aiming to improve workers' mobility and productivity via their smartphones. The threats and dangers posed by the smartphones to the enterprise are also ever-growing. Such dangers can be mitigated by running the enterprise software inside a "secure container" on the smartphone. In our work we present a systematic assessment of security critical areas in design and implementation of a secure container for Android using reverse engineering and attacker-inspired methods. We do this through a case-study of Samsung KNOX, a real-world product deployed on millions of devices. Our research shows how KNOX security features work behind the scenes and lets us compare the vendor's public security claims against reality. Along the way we identified several design weaknesses and a few vulnerabilities that were disclosed to Samsung.