computer security foundations

Mobile Security

Kalyan Bere

Kodape

Computer Security Foundations- CRN119

10/16/2019

Mobile Security

Abstract:

Mobile security is a concern that is fully dependent on technology. The functionality of mobile phones computations is dependent on the cloud space. With the cloud space, this is a virtual space that connects people globally. Due to this global interaction, there are security concerns that are associated with mobile one's computations. This is what is discussed in this paper. It sheds light on what mobile computation is, critical concerns of this context, threats which make mobile security concern s and finalizes this topic with a measure to curb mobile security compromises.

Introduction

Come to think of mobile computing; almost everyone in the world is using mobile computing. Due to this vast use of mobile computing worldwide, some pros and cons are associated with the use of mobile phones globally. Advantages of mobile computing can be of benefit to mobile phones users' while cons can be a threat to the victimized mobile phone user. In this research paper, the paper will assess the context of mobile security to shed light on the in-depth insight that surrounds this context. To serve this purpose, this research paper will focus on why mobile security is important, dangers and threats of compromised mobile security and how mobile users can protect themselves from mobile security issues. To serve the purpose of research work, this research paper will utilize secondary sources of information, referred to as a literature review. Through the evaluation of the literature review, this paper will screen the most important aspects of mobile security and harmonize information from various sources in on research paperwork.

Literature review:

Definition of mobile security:

A broad array of mobile security confirms mile security as the security precautions that are desired for networks which are used to connect portable computable devices remotely (Margaret) mobile security, retrievable from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/mobile-security. Mobile security is desired due to increased users of wireless computation mobile services globally. This increased number of users dictate increased operations the cloud space that employs these portable computing mobile devise. Mobile security is desired majorly to cut financial losses that one can incur when their mobile security has been compromised.

Concerns in mobile security:

Device loss; this concern almost applies to every other owner of any portable computing mobile device because they are prone to get lost. When they get lost, it can become a threatening concern to data that was in the lost mobile device.

Application security; this concern is determined to ensure that application that requires too much authorization is controlled. This is because some of these applications can ask for guaranteed access to private information which they can leak, thus promoting compromised mobile security.

Device data leakage; this concern is perceived as a need to expos mobile users to the possible threat they can exposing themselves during files and data sharing using mole computing. These ways promote leakage of data and files being shared, thus landing confidential data into wrong hands.

Malware attacks; some mobile computing devices like laptops are prone to malware attacks. These attacks land the owner of the attacked device, may it be an individual or an organization into financial problem due to loss of data files and destructing of the affected mobile device engine (He, Chan & Guizani, 2015).

Device theft; this concern is desired to gain insight how a device is stolen can be tracked before thieves in question destroys files in the stolen device or before they can make use of those files to enrich themselves against the wish of the legit deice owner.

The future threat of mobile security:

Because technology will always keep on advancing, so will be the case with mobile security threats. Some of these mobile security compromises are network spoofing, phishing, broken cryptography, spyware, among others.

Facilitating mobile security:

To realize strong security for mobile computing devices, there are some considerations that need to be made when using cloud connections (Lee, 2015). Thee security measures include using VPN functionality, encrypting device and files in it, installing antivirus to detect possible compromise attempts, ensuring that one does not use unprotected public Wi-Fi, among others.

REFERENCES

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/mobile-security

He, D., Chan, S., & Guizani, M. (2015). Mobile application security: malware threats and defenses. IEEE Wireless Communications, 22(1), 138-144.

Lee, W. H., & Lee, R. B. (2015, February). Multi-sensor authentication to improve smartphone security. In 2015 International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) (pp. 1-11). IEEE.