Android Security – Significant Developments in 2014
- Enabling deployment of full disk encryption.
- Expanding the use of hardware protected cryptography.
- Improving the Android application sandbox with SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) based Mandatory Access Control system (MAC).
- Developers provided with improved tools to detect and react to related security vulnerabilities, including the SecurityProvider and the nogotofail project.
- Providing device manufacturers with ongoing support for fixing vulnerabilities related to device security – along with development of 79 security patches.
- Better adapted to respond to potential susceptibilities in key areas, such as the updateable WebView in Android 5.0.
