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NEMESYS: Enhanced Network Security for Seamless Service Provisioning in the Smart Mobile Ecosystem

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Information Sciences and Systems 2013

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 264))

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As a consequence of the growing popularity of smart mobile devices, mobile malware is clearly on the rise, with attackers targeting valuable user information and exploiting vulnerabilities of the mobile ecosystems. With the emergence of large-scale mobile botnets, smartphones can also be used to launch attacks on mobile networks. The NEMESYS project will develop novel security technologies for seamless service provisioning in the smart mobile ecosystem, and improve mobile network security through better understanding of the threat landscape. NEMESYS will gather and analyze information about the nature of cyber-attacks targeting mobile users and the mobile network so that appropriate counter-measures can be taken. We will develop a data collection infrastructure that incorporates virtualized mobile honeypots and a honeyclient, to gather, detect and provide early warning of mobile attacks and better understand the modus operandi of cyber-criminals that target mobile devices. By correlating the extracted information with the known patterns of attacks from wireline networks, we will reveal and identify trends in the way that cyber-criminals launch attacks against mobile devices.

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Notes

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    This number is for Android alone, which accounts for \(99~\%\) of all encountered malware in 2012 [29].

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    http://www.nemesys-project.eu/nemesys/index.html

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The work presented in this paper was supported by the EU FP7 collaborative research project NEMESYS (Enhanced Network Security for Seamless Service Provisioning in the Smart Mobile Ecosystem), under grant agreement no. 317888 within the FP7-ICT-2011.1.4 Trustworthy ICT domain.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ , London , UK

    Erol Gelenbe & Gökçe Görbil

  2. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Information Technologies Institute, 57001 , Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dimitrios Tzovaras

  3. Technical University of Berlin, 10587 , Berlin, Germany

    Steffen Liebergeld

  4. Hispasec Sistemas S.L, 29590 , Campanillas, Malaga, Spain

    David Garcia

  5. Telecom Italia IT, 20123 , Milan, Italy

    Madalina Baltatu

  6. COSMOTE - Mobile Telecommunications S.A, 15124 , Maroussi, Greece

    George Lyberopoulos

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Gelenbe, E. et al. (2013). NEMESYS: Enhanced Network Security for Seamless Service Provisioning in the Smart Mobile Ecosystem. In: Gelenbe, E., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2013. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01604-7_36

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