An Architecture To Provide Cloud Based Security Services For Smartphones
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Gerald Q. Maguire, Philipp Stephanow · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2011
Smartphones offer functionalities to end users which were formerly only provided by personal computers. However,the adaptation of technologies enabling these functionalities also inherited the vulnerabilities of these technologies. To enable smartphones to address these threats appropriate security measures have to be identified and implemented. Another technology which has recently gained popularity is cloud computing. Due to the resource constraints of smartphones, realizing security services for smartphones in the form of cloud services seem to be a natural fit. This paper proposes a generic architecture for providing security services in the cloud for smartphones within a corporate environment. Preliminary results of experimental performance and battery measurements are presented supporting the core idea of the architecture to offload computationally expensive security functions from smartphones to resource rich cloud environments.