Exploring SE for Android
Discover Security Enhancements (SE) for Android to build your own protected Android-based systems
Published on 13. January 2025
214 pages
978-1-78439-389-2 (ISBN)
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Book DescriptionThis book is intended for developers and engineers with some familiarity of operating system concepts as implemented by Linux. A basic background in C code would be helpful. Their positions range from hobbyists wanting to secure their Android powered creations to OEM engineers building handsets to engineers of emerging areas where Android is seeing growth.What you will learn
Experiment with Linux and SELinux access controls
Build custom Android kernels
Backport SE for Android patches to different Android versions
Explore binder and property services, what they are, and how and why SELinux integrates them
Work with Android core internal systems like init and zygote
Learn how to keep pace with and navigate the details of fast moving open source projects
Overcome obstacles in policy development through directed experimentation
Who this book is forThis book is intended for developers and engineers with some familiarity of operating system concepts as implemented by Linux. A basic background in C code would be helpful. Their positions range from hobbyists wanting to secure their Android powered creations to OEM engineers building handsets to engineers of emerging areas where Android is seeing growth.
Book DescriptionThis book is intended for developers and engineers with some familiarity of operating system concepts as implemented by Linux. A basic background in C code would be helpful. Their positions range from hobbyists wanting to secure their Android powered creations to OEM engineers building handsets to engineers of emerging areas where Android is seeing growth.What you will learn
Experiment with Linux and SELinux access controls
Build custom Android kernels
Backport SE for Android patches to different Android versions
Explore binder and property services, what they are, and how and why SELinux integrates them
Work with Android core internal systems like init and zygote
Learn how to keep pace with and navigate the details of fast moving open source projects
Overcome obstacles in policy development through directed experimentation
Who this book is forThis book is intended for developers and engineers with some familiarity of operating system concepts as implemented by Linux. A basic background in C code would be helpful. Their positions range from hobbyists wanting to secure their Android powered creations to OEM engineers building handsets to engineers of emerging areas where Android is seeing growth.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78439-389-2 (9781784393892)
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William Roberts | William Confer
Exploring SE for Android
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02/2015
Packt Publishing
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Persons
William Confer has been engineering embedded and mobile systems since 1997. He has worked for Samsung Mobile as a managing staff engineer and currently teaches computer science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He holds a patent in low-cost character recognition for extremely resource-limited devices and has multiple other patents pending for mobile technologies. William Roberts is a software engineer who is focused on OS-level security and platform enhancements. He is one of the engineers who founded the Samsung KNOX product and an early adopter of SE for Android. He has made contributions to several open source projects, such as SE for Android, the Android Open Source Project, the Linux Kernel, CyanogenMod, and OpenSC. His recent interests have taken him to Smart Card technologies and the virtualization of smart cards. In his spare time, he works with Dr. Confer on the Miniat project (http://www.miniat.org), a virtual, embedded architecture simulator.
Content
Table of Contents
Linux access controls
SELinux Basics
Android is Weird
Installation on the UDOO
Booting the System
Exploring SelinuxFS
Interpreting Audit Logs
Applying Contexts to Files
Adding Services to Domains
Placing Applications in Domains
Labeling Properties
Mastering the Tool Chain
Creating an Object Manager with SELinux
Appendix
Linux access controls
SELinux Basics
Android is Weird
Installation on the UDOO
Booting the System
Exploring SelinuxFS
Interpreting Audit Logs
Applying Contexts to Files
Adding Services to Domains
Placing Applications in Domains
Labeling Properties
Mastering the Tool Chain
Creating an Object Manager with SELinux
Appendix
