Cybersecurity Association to hold seminar today (Friday, Feb. 26) Cybersecurity Association to hold seminar today (Friday, Feb. 26)

The Cybersecurity Association (CsA) invites you to a seminar, "Automatic Permission Recommended for New Android App Development," from 5:30-6:30 p.m. today (Friday, Feb. 26) in 127 Jabara Hall. The speaker will be Huzefa Kagdi, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at WSU.

Talk abstract: Permission mechanisms play a crucial role for ensuring privacy and security of Android mobile applications. An Android app that requires access to the device resources must be granted specific permissions for its correct operation. App developers need to be aware of this API from/to permission traceability, which is not necessarily explicitly documented, for the proper functioning of the desired app feature.

In this talk, we will discuss an approach formulated at WSU, named ApMiner, which relies on association rule discovery to identify co-occurrence patterns of Android APIs and permissions.