Towards Data-Centric Security in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

The vision of data-centric security promises to enable efficient security in future ubiquitous computing environments, which are heavily pervaded with embedded devices and generally to complex to manage manually. We survey the existing work of various areas needed for data-centric security, point out their relationships, and comment on their applicability in these future environments. Furthermore, we present two concepts that explicitly employ the distinct UbiComp characteristics to foster data-centric security.