Taking a Stand Again Hackers
Thought-leaders are taking a stand against malicious hackers.
Android, along with its partners and thought-leaders in the community, continue to make significant strides to protect against malicious hackers. At Android's very transparent "State of the Union" Black Hat presentation, Google's Adrian Ludwig outlined a series of steps Android has taken over the past few years to build their layered security model and increase their overall security posture. This included some significant data analysis to identify where so many potentially harmful apps (PHA) exist globally, what devices they run on, and even what types of signatures they give off that may be reused by other malicious apps. This has resulted in, amongst other things, a rapid deployment and upgrade in the security of Android developer and user services such as Google Play, Verify Apps and SafetyNet.
Overall, by leveraging the developer community and the power of a billion or so devices deployed worldwide, with the capability to harvest certain performance and security data from those devices, Android can continue to mature their shared security model and increase the overall security posture of their eco-system.