Protecting applications and devices in nomadic business environments

Bussard, Laurent;Molva, Refik;Roudier, Yves
Research report RR-04-101

This paper presents a pragmatic approach to protect
the integrity of execution of an application in a nomadic business
environment. Applications run in such contexts are based on the
federation of appliances collaborating through direct communication
as well as through the distribution of mobile pieces of code. Securing
the operation of an application means protecting mobile code since
execution environments may misbehave as well as protecting the
environments because mobile pieces of code are potentially malicious.
After reviewing several such protection techniques, an architecture
for securing business-to-employee and business-to-business nomadic
applications is drafted based on the trust model that can be assumed in
such a context.


Type:
Report
Date:
2004-04-02
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
1353
Copyright:
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