Exploring SE for Android

Discover Security Enhancements (SE) for Android to build your own protected Android-based systems

Key Features
Learn the fundamental security models and motivations behind Linux, SELinux, and SE for Android.
Build and enable current security enhancements from the SE for Android project onto a working embedded UDOO board.
Discover how to leverage SE for Android to secure your own projects in powerful ways using this step by step guide.

Book Description
You will start by exploring the nature of the security mechanisms behind Linux and SELinux, and as you complete the chapters, you will integrate and enable SE for Android into a System on Chip (SoC), a process that, prior to this book, has never before been documented in its entirety! Discover Android’s unique user space, from its use of the common UID and GID model to promote its security goals to its custom binder IPC mechanism. Explore the interface between the kernel and user space with respect to SELinux and investigate contexts and labels and their application to system objects.

This book will help you develop the necessary skills to evaluate and engineer secured products with the Android platform, whether you are new to the world of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) or experienced in secure system deployment.

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