Cyber Security - Proposals for Context-Awareness



Many context-aware services have been suggested in recent years in attempt to make life simpler. 

Despite the fact that the word "context" was coined in 1994, the first context-aware solution in the literature was offered in 1991 [69]. 

They developed Active Badge, an unique technology for locating individuals in an office setting. 

This technology was able to determine the position of users in order to route calls to phones in close proximity to the user. 

Because users wore badges that sent signals to a centralized location system, the location of the users was known. 

Following that, many other solutions have been given in many fields, such as the one provided by Wood et al. in [70]. 

They suggested a teleporting system that could make the user's environment accessible from any machine having a Java-enabled web browser. 

Users did not need to take any computer platforms with them while utilizing this method, and they could run their programs on any nearby system. 

These context-aware systems gave consumers additional options for obtaining personalized services by collecting context information, which was particularly useful in situations where users' mobility was high. 

Context-aware solutions, such as car navigation systems, emergency services, and recommender systems, are well-known examples of mobile-friendly solutions. 

A current deep analysis on context-aware systems examines a significant number of solutions across a variety of issues [71]. 

Feel@Home [72], Hydra [73], CroCo [74], SOCAM [75], and CoBrA [76] are examples of systems that enable "security and privacy" characteristics. 

Feel@Home was a context-aware framework that allowed for communication across contexts or domains while also taking into account intra- and inter-domain interactions. 

Hydra was an IoT-focused ambient intelligence middleware that combined device, semantic, and application contexts to provide context-aware information. 

CroCo, on the other hand, was a cross-application context management service for diverse settings, while SOCAM shaped the quality, dependencies, and categorization of context information using a set of ontologies. 

This collection was constructed on a common higher ontology that defined ideas across all contexts, as well as domain-specific ontologies that defined concepts inside each one. 

CoCA [77] is another similar effort in this area that is not included in the survey reported in [71]. 

This concept proposed a collaborative context-aware service platform with a neighborhood-based resource sharing mechanism. 

By evaluating information about the context and the position of the pieces, CoCA was able to deduce the users' location. 

SHERLOCK [78] was a framework for location-based services that employed semantic technologies to assist consumers in selecting the service that best met their requirements in the current situation. 

Another IoT-focused solution was Hydra [73]. 

It was a middleware responsible for providing solutions to wireless devices and sensors in the context of ambient awareness. 

It considered a strong reasoning technique for a variety of context sources, such as physical device-based, semantic, and abstract layer-based context sources. 

PerDe [79] was a development environment for pervasive computing applications that were tailored to the demands of the user. 

It included a domain-specific design language as well as a collection of graphical tools to aid in the creation of ubiquitous applications at various phases. 

DiaSuite [80] was another development technique for developing applications in the Sense/Compute/Control (SCC) domain that employed a software design approach. 

DiaSuite also included a compiler that generated a specific Java programming framework that guided programmers through the implementation of the different components of the software system. 

Semantic rules were used in several of the solutions listed above for various goals. 

Hydra, CroCo, SHERLOCK, and SOCAM all employed semantic rules to infer new information about a given context while taking information from other sources into consideration. 

Instead, CoCA used semantic rules to govern the ontologies, such as a property being the opposite of another, as well as domain-specific information. 

Despite this, none of the four systems employed semantic rules to build policies aimed at safeguarding users' privacy choices. 

Any context-aware framework that allows users to dynamically limit or reveal information to others based on their location and privacy choices should support users' privacy. 

As a result, the current trend in context-aware systems is to utilize rules to govern the disclosure of users' location. 

There are many semantic web-based systems that administer rules to protect users' privacy. 

CoBrA, for example, demonstrated a context-aware design that enabled remote agents to communicate information. 

CoBrA established an ontology that formed places made up of smart agents, devices, and sensors while also protecting the privacy of its users via rules that determine if they have the appropriate rights to share and/or receive data. 

Another example is the Preserving Privacy in Context-aware Systems (PPCS) solution [81], which proposed a semantically rich, policy-based framework with several degrees of privacy to secure users' information in settings with mobile devices. 

To create access control choices, dynamic information seen or inferred from the context was combined with static information about the owner. 

Users' location and context information was shared (or not) in accordance with their privacy rules. 

CoPS [82] is another concept that supports privacy regulations without requiring semantic web technology. 

Users could decide who had access to their context data, when it was accessed, and at what degree of granularity in CoPS. 



A comparison of the preceding solutions is shown in the Table below, taking into consideration the contextual information they handle and their privacy support. 







SeCoMan [83] is a solution that obtains information from the context or environment in which users are placed, models and protects personal information, and provides context-aware applications, in addition to the preceding solutions and intended to safeguard users' privacy in context-aware situations. 

SeCoMan offers a semantic web-oriented architecture. 

On the one hand, information about users and situations is represented using an OWL 2-defined set of ontologies. 

Users' information, on the other hand, is safeguarded by policies described in the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). 

These rules enable users to communicate their location with the individuals they want, at the granularity they want, at the proper time and place. 

This paper also provides a comparison and analysis of several context-aware systems. 

The Prophet architecture [84], on the other hand, offers an excellent security approach for enabling users to exchange their location data. 

To explain the users' activity patterns, the authors of this proposal establish a Fingerprint identification based on Markov chains and state categorization. 

Furthermore, they suggest a location-based anonymization system that uses an indistinguishability approach to secure users' sensitive information. 

Several tests show that the suggested method performs well and is effective. 

PRECISE [85] is another privacy-preserving and context-aware system that makes suggestions based on the information that users choose to divulge to certain services. 

Users can release their locations to specific services, hide their positions from specific users, mask their locations from other users by generating fictitious (fake) positions, set the granularity and proximity at which they want to be located by services or users, and maintain their anonymity to specific services by using this solution. 

In order to do this, an architecture based on the MCC paradigm was created. 

This architecture is made up of services that are assigned at the MCC paradigm's Software as a Service (SaaS) layer and provide users with context-aware information suggestions. 

The solution's major component is middleware deployed at the Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer, which maintains users' information and handles context and space information that might be given by independent systems. 

ProtectMyPrivacy (PmP) [86] is an Android privacy protection solution that was conceived and deployed. 

When privacy-sensitive data accesses occur, our concept may identify key contextual information at runtime. 

Based on crowd-sourced data, PmP infers the purpose of data access. 

The authors show that controlling sensitive data obtained by these libraries might be a useful tool for protecting users' privacy. 

The following set of solutions focuses on safeguarding users' data while they travel between different settings or situations (intraand inter-context scenarios). 

In this manner, CAPRIS [87] is a system that protects users' information regardless of their location. 

Users were allowed to choose what, where, when, how, to whom, and with what degree of accuracy they wanted to share their information using CAPRIS in real time. 

This information may include the space in which they are placed at various degrees of granularity, the users' personal information at various levels of accuracy, the users' activities, and information specific to the context in which they are positioned. 

Users did not have to control their privacy while using CAPRIS; instead, they only had to choose the best suited set of rules given by the system. 

MASTERY [88] proposes to users different sets of privacy-preserving and context-aware regulations, termed profiles, as an extension of CAPRIS, which has the same aims. 

Users just need to pick the most appropriate profile based on their interests in the setting in which they are, and they may edit these profiles by adding, removing, or changing some of the rules that shape them. 

Finally, when information is to be exchanged, the owner is notified in real time, and he or she chooses whether to allow or prohibit the information exchange. 

Finally, h-MAS [89] is a privacy-preserving and context-aware solution for health situations that aims to manage user privacy in both intra- and inter-context scenarios. 

In a health scenario, h-MAS recommends a set of privacy policies to users who are aware of their current health situation. 

Users may make changes to the policies based on their preferences. 

These rules safeguard users' health records, whereabouts, and context-aware data from being accessed by other parties without their permission. 

Semantic web approaches, which offer a common architecture that makes it easier to describe, analyze, and communicate information across separate systems, are used to manage patient information and the health context. 

In terms of network administration, controlling network resources at run-time and taking contextual information into account may result in significant benefits in terms of automated management, energy savings, and security. 

In this regard, [90] proposes a mobility-aware, policy-based system for lowering energy usage in networks based on the SDN paradigm. 

The rules proposed in this solution enable the SDN paradigm to turn on/off network resources that are inefficiently using energy, as well as to build virtualized network resources such as proxies to decrease network traffic created by users consuming services near to network infrastructure. 

In line with energy consumption, user mobility, and network statistics, network managers design rules that will determine the list of probable actions to be made by SDN components. 

This solution also includes an architecture for managing mobile network resources based on prior regulations and an ontology that represents the ideas associated with the mobile network subject. 

The ontology provides a set of primitives for describing a collection of the resources controlled by the SDN paradigm, as well as their relationships. 

Finally, in [91], a concept was made to maintain QoS and end-user experience in dynamic mobile network settings by taking contextual information into account. 

Using high-level rules, this approach presents an architecture for managing SDN resources at run-time. 

The authors highlight the usage of mobility-aware, management-oriented rules, which are developed by the service provider network administrator to determine the actions taken by the SDN based on network infrastructure data and location, as well as user and service mobility. 

These regulations are designed to provide end-users with a positive experience in very congested areas (e.g., stadiums, shopping malls, or unexpected traffic jams). 

To that end, the policies determine when the SDN should balance network traffic between infrastructure near the congested one, when the SDN should create or dismantle physical or virtual infrastructure if the congested one is insufficient to meet end-user demand, and when the SDN should restrict or limit specific services or network traffic in critical situations caused by large crowds using services in specific areas.



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Cyber Security - Scenarios for Context-Aware Applications.



This paper depicts many situations in which the PBM paradigm aids IMSs in the processing and protection of information, as well as the configuration and behavior management of systems. 


Location Privacy Management


Protecting the privacy of users' data in location-based services that are part of users' daily lives is a unique problem [63]. 

Location-based services are now available on computers, smartphones, tablets, and smart watches, and provide consumers with additional value. 

Social networks, automobile navigation systems, and recommender systems are examples of these services. 

The preservation of enormous amounts of diverse information connected to a user's location is a difficult undertaking that necessitates the deployment of an automated process. 

Location regulations seem to be a potential technique to provide real-time and dynamic protection. 

In this regard, location regulations should enable users to: Mask their location by creating one or more fictional locations for a specific user. 

Other users will be unable to tell where the target is really located. 

When they don't want to share their location with others, they might hide it. 

This prevents the requester(s) from knowing the target's location. 

Specify the level of precision at which users wish to be located. 

Several degrees of granularity may be established depending on the environment in which users are situated, including nation, city, building, and floor, among others. 

Define the minimal amount of proximity that users wish to be situated at. 

The values specified for the granularity policies correspond to the nearness levels. 



Hybrid Recommender Systems 


People's everyday lives are being bombarded with a growing amount of information, making it difficult to determine which information is relevant and which is not. 

Recommender systems are tools that may be used to propose goods to users that they may not have discovered [64]. 

Traditional recommenders, such as those based on content-based (CB) [65] and collaborative filtering (CF) [66], prefer to generate recommendations using basic models. 

The CB technique is based on item similarity, thus things that are similar to those that the target user like are suggested. 

Classifying goods, on the other hand, is a difficult operation that normally requires human expertise. 

In this context, CF approaches arose to address this flaw, relying on stereotype-based models to determine user similarity. 

As a result, the CF models aimed to propose goods that individuals with similar tastes had enjoyed. 

With the introduction of mobile devices, it became possible to incorporate location data to enhance the recommendations of conventional systems. 

Recommendations are made using location-based recommender systems, which take into account the distance between users and goods, as well as their subsequent moves. 

The ability to integrate users' location and movements with additional factors such as preferences, item features, or user ratings gives more important information that may be used to provide more accurate suggestions for things of potential interest to users. 

When the context-aware paradigm first appeared, it prompted the use of contextual information to recommend goods that were near to the users. 

The time, companion, or weather conditions in the environment where users are situated are examples of contextual information. 

These context-aware recommenders usually take into account not just contextual information, but also information from other sources such as locations, preferences, or attributes. 

During the suggestion process, the prior information is combined to allow for a better adaption of the recommendations to the current situation. 

For example, when it begins raining near a shopping area, context-aware recommender systems may recommend umbrellas or raincoats. 

The use of contextual data in conjunction with data from other sources has several privacy concerns that must be addressed. 

Users should be allowed to choose which aspects of their data they wish to divulge to recommender systems on a per-request basis. 

Users should establish their privacy choices in this way by employing rules relating to their location, identity, and personal data. 


Information Security in eHealth Scenarios.


The advancement of technology, communications, and medical services has altered the development of conventional health systems. 

There has been a lot of study in the healthcare field in recent years with the objective of moving away from paper-based systems and toward electronic-based systems that handle digital information. 

The electronic versions of patient health information are known as personal health records (PHRs) and electronic health records (EHRs). 

Patients are in charge of the former, while healthcare systems are in charge of the latter. 

eHealth [67] is a term used in the literature to describe the delivery of health care utilizing digital technologies. 

Despite the benefits of this growth, several significant difficulties have emerged, such as the need for a shared infrastructure and standard information models to ensure system compatibility. 

Furthermore, the vast amount of data associated with EHR and PHR, along with the contextual information offered by the growth of ubiquitously available context-aware services, makes monitoring and safeguarding the privacy of patients' information much more difficult. 

Context-aware apps may be beneficial and helpful in managing patients' information, with care for patients' privacy and how personal information, location, and context information are exposed, in order to partly solve this difficulty. 

Users of context-aware eHealth systems should be able to regulate the privacy of their medical records, personal information, whereabouts, and information about the environment or context in which they are situated dynamically in this way. 

The PBM paradigm may assist in the design of rules that enable both users and administrators to manage and regulate sensitive information in order to meet these objectives. 

 

Networking Paradigm 


Because computer networks are dynamic and complicated systems, their setup and administration remain difficult. 

Switches, routers, firewalls, and middleboxes are among the many resources that make up a network. 

They are responsible for passing packets across them. 

Because of the amount of various events happening at the same time and the variety of the network resources, network administrators are responsible for configuring and maintaining these resources, which is a very challenging job. 

The PBNM paradigm [68] enables network managers to set rules to regulate the behavior of network resources as well as packages flowing across the network to automate this management. 

Network administrators may designate, for example, which services have higher priority to ensure QoS, or which network resources should be turned off because they are inefficiently using energy, using rules. 

Despite the PBNM paradigm's success, recent technological breakthroughs in mobile devices and networks have promoted users' mobility, making location one of the most critical components for understanding where devices, resources, or people are. 

Network management has become a complex undertaking due to the combination of location and mobility information with other essential contextual information such as the health of network resources or the statistics of items passing over the network. 

Nowadays, network managers must create more complicated rules and duties, which necessitates taking into account past context-aware data. 

Furthermore, since network equipment have traditionally been closed, proprietary, and vertically integrated, the infrastructure's rigidity limits on-demand innovation and development. 

Context-aware systems management seeks to account for the availability of dynamically changing resources and services during the course of a system's operation. 

Management rules and automated procedures must be able to react to dynamic changes in order to provide the best possible service to the user in any circumstance. 

Automatic setup of components, automated identification of chances for performance enhancement (self-optimization), automatic detection, diagnosis, and repair of local hardware and software issues, and automatic defense against assaults are all examples of self-management capabilities. 

The goal is to reduce the amount of external intervention, such as by human system administrators, while maintaining the architectural qualities mandated by the specification. 

The term "self-configuration" refers to the process through which an application's internal structure adapts to its surroundings. 

Networks are large-scale distributed systems that need management solutions that dynamically alter the behavior of the resources under administration. 

This network administration is a difficult undertaking with a high level of complexity. 

In the application of the PBM dedicated to network management, enforcing network QoS and choosing multiple routes to access specific network resources became a need in certain cases. 

The PBNM paradigm was created to undertake policy-based network management. 

This paradigm allows an administrator to declare what he or she wants to do, as well as the final outcomes, without needing to know how to do it for particular devices.





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