Paper: Evaluation of Security Solutions for Android Systems

With the increasing usage of smartphones a plethora of security
solutions are being designed and developed. Many of the security
solutions fail to cope with advanced attacks and are not aways
properly designed for smartphone platforms. Therefore, there is a
need for a methodology to evaluate their effectiveness. Since the
Android operating system has the highest market share today, we
decided to focus on it in this study in which we review some of
the state-of-the-art security solutions for Android-based
smartphones. In addition, we present a set of evaluation criteria
aiming at evaluating security mechanisms that are specifically
designed for Android-based smartphones. We believe that the
proposed framework will help security solution designers develop
more effective solutions and assist security experts evaluate the
effectiveness of security solutions for Android-based
smartphones.

more here...........http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1502/1502.04870.pdf