An Overview of Threats and Security Software Solutions for Smartphones
D. Fischer, Bernd Markscheffel, T. Seyffarth · International Journal for Information Security Research · 2014
The market of security software solutions for smartphones has grown considerably in the last years.A wide range of products is available.The objective of our paper is to develop an overview of security software solutions for smartphones.At first we identify typical threats and security measures for smartphones.Then we explore current security software solutions and describe how these can be classified.Furthermore, we analyse which security software solutions (respectively classes of security software solutions) can prevent or mitigate which threats.