Data security issues in the realm of mobile cloud computing: A survey

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a recent technological development, which has emerged from two popular technology trends; mobile computing and cloud. In essence it revolutionises the capabilities of mobile devices by integrating both storage and processing of the cloud environment with mobile computing and in doing so providing greater optimisation and operating power, allowing for transparent and seamless use of resources provided by the cloud. However, expanding the capability of resource constrained mobile devices in this manner comes at a price. There are many risks associated with the security of data within the cloud environment and as MCC essentially uses the cloud, it also inherits any security issues that are associated with cloud computing. The aim of this survey is to identify potential data security issues, and analyse and present some pioneering security mechanisms and finally suggest some future directions for better data security with MCC.

CCEODSP-Cloud Computing Environment Observation for Data Security and Privacy

“…The Cloud system [13] deals with a good number of data centric operations with massive data requirements where massive refers to TB and PB bytes of the users data. Thus data integrity challenges associated with DaaS, SaaS, PaaS, etc.…”