SKIMS - A Cooperative Autonomous Immune System for
Mobile Devices
The research in SKIMS includes:
- Cross-layer Security System for Mobile Devices
- Lightweight Local and Distributed Attack Detection
- Proactive and Reactive Defense
- Autonomous Traffic Flow Authentication
- Self-healing by Secure Code Image Upates
SKIMS is part of the German Federal IT Security Programme (en, de) with a special focus on research for Security in Insecure Environments. The project is led by the Computer Systems & Telematics group at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and funded by the BMBF (FKZ 01BY1040).
Selected News:
Presentation at ACM CCS/SPSM: Sebastian Trapp will present our paper "Can Your Phone Trust Your Friend Selection?" at the ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices
First Showcase: We present the first SKIMS showcase at the Long Night of Science 2011.
Benjamin Jochheim wins student competition: At this year's TERENA Networking Conference Benjamin Jochheim has won the prize for best student poster, awarded by Cisco, the sponsor of student participation this year. His poster is at: http://tnc2011.terena.org/core/poster/29.
Presentations at I2CS: We will present two papers at the 11th International Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems (I2CS): "Code Attestation with Compressed Instruction Code" by Benjamin Vetter and Dirk Westhoff; "An MTM based Watchdog for Malware Famishment in Smartphones" by Osman Ugus and Dirk Westhoff
Posters accepted for ACM WiSec 2011: We will present two posters at the ACM WiSec 2011.
First SKIMS paper:"Data obfuscation with network coding" by A. Hessler, T. Kakumarua, H. Perreyb, and D. Westhoff will be published in Elsevier Computer Communications [pdf, html].
Project start: Press release published by FU Berlin (short, long) and HAW Hamburg (both in German).