A Review and a Classifications of Mobile Cloud Computing Security Issues

Cloud computing is one of the latest developments in the IT industry. It is an emerging technology paradigm that migrates current technological and computing concepts into utility-like solutions similar to electricity and water systems. In addition, with the popularity of mobile devices and mobile computing and their integration with cloud computing we end up with a new IT paradigm called Mobile Cloud Computing. In this paradigm, cloud computing provides the infrastructure, platform, and software services to mobile users through mobile devices and mobile networks. Mobile Cloud Computing offers a wide range of benefits including configurable computing resources, economic savings, and service flexibility. However, the full use and adoption of this new IT paradigm is hindered by numerous new security and privacy issues and concerns. In this paper we will investigate, review, and discuss the new security issues introduced by the use of mobile cloud computing, profoundly analyzing the security issues from three different aspects: mobile devices, wireless networks, and cloud infrastructure.