MOBILE APPLICATIONS SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW AND CURRENT TREND

Abstract

Mobile Security is an emerging concept and name in Information Technology Security. It is very close with Mobile Computing and concerns with the securing mobile based services and products. It is the protection and system against the attack and vulnerabilities and applicable to the smart phones, tablets, laptop etc. Mobile Security is also related with the wireless security. The concept of securing mobile devises becomes important and valuable and increasing rapidly in recent past. Today the organizations and institutions of different kinds are using various Information Technology tools and components and all are connected to the internet or online systems and as a result vulnerability became crucial. The mobile applications security may be two types active and passive. The device loss becomes an important concern and apart from these few important are application security, device leakages, malware attack, device theft etc. The individuals are also employing different tools and devices and all such products become challenge now days. There are different methods in attacking the systems and also preventing. All these attacking systems and preventing systems are increasing day by day. The domain Information Assurance, as deals with both technology and managerial affairs of the security; so the Mobile Security field is also an important area of the field. This is a conceptual paper and theoretical in nature and deals with several affairs of Mobile Security.