Enhancing Mobile Enterprise Security: A Blockchain and Agent Paradigm-Based Approach for Continuous Protection and Rapid Adaptation

Abstract

With the increasing use of mobiles in the workplace, companies need a strict yet flexible security framework to balance risk and trust. This need has led to the expansion and rapid growth of company security technologies for mobility. Existing application mechanisms cannot precisely cover the diverse security policies of enterprise applications. However, the companies must know in which technologies they need to invest. It also needs to know whether it should rely on a single technology, a combination of technologies or adopt a unified approach. MDM (Mobile Device Management) and MAM (Mobile Application Management) are the best-known existing applications in this field. In this article, an analysis of the two most widely used mobile ecosystem management tools was done from a security point of view. In addition, a new approach that strengthens the security part of the MAM application and supports dynamic policies was proposed. The proposed mechanism is based on a set of artifacts and mobile agents as well as block chain technology to guarantee strong security during interactions between the mobile host and the mobile enterprise. The experimental results showed that this approach significantly improves the efficiency of the MAM application.

Keywords

• Artifact
• block chain
• mobile agent
• mobile application management
• mobile enterprise
• mobile security