Um mecanismo de segurança com adaptação dinâmica em tempo de execução para dispositivos móveis.

Abstract

The increasing use of mobile devices, wireless networks and mobile applications highlights the importance of ensuring information security. This concern arises because of the risks involved in traffic sensitive information via wireless, since it does not limit the risk of attacks, as in conventional networks. Additionally, the trend in the use of sustainable practices advocated by the Green Computing imposes the need for designing flexible applications that seek to reduce consumption of resources such as energy. Thus, mechanisms for providing confidentiality of information passing over the wireless medium should consider the efficient allocation of computing resources. This is a key issue to be considered when designing secure mobile applications. Therefore, the protection mechanisms should balance the security level required in accordance with the consumption of resources allocated to provide it. The use of information that characterizes the current situation (context) can assist in this task. Thus, the use of appropriate protective security requirements of applications and combined with the context can identify situations where you need to raise or lower the security level in order to reduce the resource consumption of the device. This work proposes a Security Mechanism Dynamic Adaptation (MeSAD), focusing on confidentiality, able to adapt the level of security according to the context and reduce the resource consumption of mobile devices. The main objective is to find the balance point in the tradeoff between the level of security and resource consumption. In order to achieve this goal, this paper presents a tool to support the use of MeSAD during the development of mobile applications, and enable the assessments on the performance of cryptographic algorithms that are used in different devices.