Mobile devices currently offer many value-added applications and
services such as messaging, navigation, social networking, finance,
and entertainment. As these mobile applications have access to
users’ personal information and are capable of gathering and
transmitting trust sensitive information, posing security and
privacy risks. In this paper, we propose a context-aware adaptive
security framework for eliciting users’ context information and
adapting this information with mobile applications’ network access
control mechanism. The framework enforces the execution of
mobile applications inside security incubators to control the
communication between mobile applications and mobile device
resources. Applications’ access requests are analyzed based on
user’s context information collected from the mobile device
sensors and the application security configuration.