Data Tethers: Preventing information leakage by enforcing environmental data access policies

Charles Fleming, Peter Peterson, Erik Kline, Peter Reiher

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Abstract

Protecting data from accidental loss or theft is crucial in today's world of mobile computing. Data Tethers provides flexible environmental policies, which can be attached to data, specifying security requirements that must be met before accessing that data. Data Tethers uses fine-grain data flow tracking to maintain these policies on derivative data. This is implemented by dynamic recompilation of legacy applications without the need to recompile from source. We demonstrate the system's feasibility with microbenchmarks that show individual component performance and benchmarks of real user applications like word processors and spreadsheets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Pages835-840
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012 - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Duration: Jun 10 2012Jun 15 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Other

Other2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa, ON
Period6/10/126/15/12

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