Abstract:

Android has been the most commonly used operating system in smartphone due to its ease of use in transferring and receiving of information on various forms. Today, professionals in diverse spheres of life currently prefer to use their personal Smartphones and tablets as the case may be for carrying out corporate work related tasks like email, documents, calendar, corporate apps among others, which has greatly helped in achieving a balance between personal and corporate life. Literature shows that several phenomena had been developed to prevent malicious applications from stealing personal sensitive information from smart phones but there is still the need for efficient solutions.This study used a conceptual approach for the implementation of a ContentAnalyzer for information leakage detection and prevention on android-based devices. This implementation will improve through the codes in the file activities and vulnerabilities that could be problem on android-based devices.

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