Speaker: Mauro Conti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Title: "CRePE: Context-Related Policy Enforcement for Android" Abstract: Most of the research work for enforcing security policies on smartphones considered coarse-grained policies, e.g. either to allow an application to run or not. In this paper we present CRePE, the first system that is able to enforce fine-grained policies, e.g. that vary while an application is running, that also depend on the context of the smartphone. A context can be defined by the status of some variables (e.g. location, time, temperature, noise, and light), the presence of other devices, a particular interaction between the user and the smartphone, or a combination of these. CRePE allows context-related policies to be defined either by the user or by trusted third parties. Depending on the authorization, third parties can set a policy on a smartphone at any moment or just when the phone is within a particular context, e.g. within a building, or a plane. Short Bio: Mauro Conti received in 2005 the Laurea Degree (equivalent to MSc) in Computer Science from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. He received in 2009 the PhD in Computer Science from the same University. In 2008, he has been Visiting Scholar at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. From 2009 he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interest is in security and privacy for wireless resource-constrained mobile devices (sensors, RFIDs, and smartphones). He is currently mainly involved in the S-MOBILE project, working with Prof. Bruno Crispo and Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. (http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/research/computer-systems/sens/staff/mauro-conti/index.asp)