Abstract
With thousands of mobile applications submitted to online application stores, the mobile application market has experienced significant growth. This growth is accompanied by an increase in malware presence. A possible solution would be to leverage those reports across all mobile ecosystems, creating a shared reputation system.
Highlights
Trojans to steal login credentials [3]) as app stores are struggling to keep up with such malware growth [2]
This paper presents a real case study and respective results on performance, scalability, and cost evaluation. case study and respective results on performance, scalability, and cost evaluation
A new approach to this problem is to relate the multiple actions of millions of users and thousands of developers, such as ratings, comments, or app uploads, to a degree of trust, and use that found reputation in the cybersecurity processes, to provide trustworthy and relevant decision support to the quality assurance [QA] and security teams
Summary
A possible solution would be to leverage those reports, across all mobile ecosystem, creating a shared reputation system, to provide more accurate feedback to the app stores quality assurance and security teams To support this sharable reputation management system, we present a scalable blockchain-based solution, that provides the necessary scalability, data privacy and trust requirements, while being cost-effective. This paper presents a cloud-based solution to manage reputation events, integrated with a consortium blockchain, to serve as a distributed ledger to store those events, as the support for the reputation system This combination allows for the identification of compromised apps, through a dedicated interface for the analysts, where the apps classified as threat by high reputation users are displayed first for review, providing and improvement on the quality assurance to users and mitigating the potential for privacy breaches and data thefts, for all users of the app stores that wish to be in the consortium.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
