A Comprehensive Approach to Mobile Device and Data Security using Iris Authentication Malware Detection Secured Cloud Storage and Retrieval

Abstract

Nowadays, smart phones have become an integral part of daily life. These have proven to be a scientific invention that fills personal and business needs in a very efficient manner. In this era, the availability of smart phones has significantly increased because of the rich variety of smart phones and essential applications provided by the manufacturers. There are 6.9 billion mobile users around the world, which is equivalent to 95.5% of the world s population, as estimated by the International Telecommunication Union till May 2014. newlineA smartphone is a mobile device that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone. Based on this feature, smartphone user can develop any programs which are customized in specific needs. Furthermore, smartphone user can trade their assets like stocks or use banking service with wireless network. However, to provide these services, smartphone needs more private information than feature phone, thus, it is very important to keep smartphone secure. At the same time, numerous mobile device security issues and data privacy threats are challenging both manufacturers and users. Therefore, mobile devices are an ideal target for various security issues and data privacy threats. newlineIn present, there are many researches on smartphone security, but there is lack of effort to analyze all security threats of smartphone. This work is needed for design of security solution, to prevent against environment, vulnerabilities and resource constrained issues of smartphone. This extreme level of comfort has brought with it an extreme number of security risks. Some of the major challenges are due to Authentication, Malicious Applications, Data Storage and Data Retrieval. To overcome these mobile security issues and data privacy over threats, vulnerabilities and attacks, an effective defensive mechanism is essential. newlineFor authentication, biometric approaches (authentication/ verifications) in mobile device is explored, which reduces the security issues and data pr