Date of Publication :7th June 2017

Abstract: Since from the last decade mobile communication and its usage have grown drastically, also it has become a serious business tool nowadays. Mobile devices are the major platform for the users to transfer and exchange a very huge and critical data for communication. Also most of the communications are based on handheld devices like smart phones, palmtops, tablets etc. These devices are variably used for applications like banking sector, personal digital assistance, remote login, m-commerce, e-commerce, internet access, entertainment and also medical usage. However due to usage of handheld devices rapidly, there might be a security issues which might restrict the usage of mobile devices. This article survey gives some basic glimpses about the security features such as authentication, authorization, privacy, confidentiality, and data securityin handheld devices and it briefs an idea on how to overcome various issues like threats and vulnerabilities that effect the human interactions and their cooperation using handheld devices, and also it provides various solutions to the mobile devices ensuring security.

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