Context Aware and Extendable Mobile Security Mechanisms

由于无处不在的设备的激增以及虚拟化的广泛采用，ICT行业更多地依赖于虚拟化服务支持的小型和资源有限的设备。这种趋势对安全解决方案架构师提出了挑战，因为设备的高移动性及其执行上下文的不断变化，特别是可用计算资源的波动。因此，迫切需要新颖的上下文感知、适应性强和细粒度的安全实施解决方案。如果这些解决方案经过充分优化和细粒度处理，它们可以从软件部署和交付技术的最新进展中获益。我们认为，现在是时候重新考虑安全解决方案的设计，以实现自主的、上下文感知的和可扩展的新一代强制机制。这些机制应该能够(a)在资源匮乏和资源可用性波动的情况下生存下来，(b)能够根据情况选择最佳的执法行动，以及(c)在资源更多的地方卸载（运送），以便与附近的设备或远程基础设施协作，实现安全目标。

Thanks to the proliferation of ubiquitous devices as well as the wide adoption of virtualization, the ICT industry is more relying on small and limited-resources devices supported by virtualized services. This trend is challenging security solutions architects because of the high mobility of devices and the continuous changing of their execution context, especially the fluctuation of available computation resources. Consequently, there is an urgent need for novel context-aware, adaptable and fine-grained security enforcement solutions. If these solutions are enough optimised and fine-grained, they can benefit from the recent progress in software deployment and shipment technologies. We believe that it is time to rethink the design of security solutions towards a novel generation of enforcement mechanisms that are autonomous, context-aware, and extendable. These mechanisms should be able to (a) survive the starvation of resources and fluctuation of resource availability, (b) be context-aware in order to choose the best enforcement actions, and (c) be offloaded (shipped) where more resources are available in order to collaborate with nearby devices or remote infrastructure towards the achievement of security objectives.