Trusted Mobile Zone: A Mobile Hypervisor Based Security Platform for Reliable Mobile Service

Kyung-Soo Lim⁺, Jae-Deok Lim, and Jeong-Nye Kim

EIectronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

{lukelim, jdscol92, jnkim}@etri.re.kr

Abstract

As smart devices expand to our lives rapidly, its popularity has become the attractive targets for malicious attackers. For the countermeasures of security threats, the techniques of trusted execution environment with domain isolation have emerged to enhance reliability and confidentiality for preserving sensitive information. This paper describes a mobile hypervisor based security platform supporting various mobile services. Our suggested platform based on hypervisor-based domain isolation is able to protect sensitive information against unauthorized accesses and provide a trusted execution environment with reliable data processing and identity authentication. We also present a prototype solution to show how our platform applies into mobile services.

Keywords: Mobile Security, Security Platform, Domain Separation, Mobile Hypervisor

+: Corresponding author: Kyung-Soo Lim
Information Security Research Division, EIectronics and Telecommunication Research Institute,

218 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, Tel: +82-42-860-5952

IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 28-34, September 2016 [pdf]