Open, Sesame! Introducing Access Control to Voice Services

06/27/2021
by   Dominika Woszczyk, et al.
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Personal voice assistants (VAs) are shown to be vulnerable against record-and-replay, and other acoustic attacks which allow an adversary to gain unauthorized control of connected devices within a smart home. Existing defenses either lack detection and management capabilities or are too coarse-grained to enable flexible policies on par with other computing interfaces. In this work, we present Sesame, a lightweight framework for edge devices which is the first to enable fine-grained access control of smart-home voice commands. Sesame combines three components: Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and a Policy module. We implemented Sesame on Android devices and demonstrate that our system can enforce security policies for both Alexa and Google Home in real-time (362ms end-to-end inference time), with a lightweight (<25MB) NLU model which exhibits minimal accuracy loss compared to its non-compact equivalent.

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