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Contribution to Book
Mobile and Handheld Security
Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts, and Technologies (2010)
  • Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University
  • Shaoen Wu, University of Southern Mississippi
  • Yiming Ji, University of South Carolina - Beaufort
  • Ming Yang, Jacksonville State University
Abstract
Mobile and handheld devices are becoming an integral part of people’s work, life and entertainment. These lightweight pocket-sized devices offer great mobility, acceptable computation power and friendly user interfaces. As people are making business transactions and managing their online bank accounts via handheld devices, they are concerned with the security level that mobile devices and systems provide. In this chapter we will discuss whether these devices, equipped with very limited computation power compared to full-sized computers, can make equivalent security services available to users. We focus on the security designs and technologies of hardware, operating systems and applications for mobile and handheld devices.
Keywords
  • Mobile security,
  • Handheld security,
  • Security designs
Publication Date
2010
Editor
Wen-Chen Hu and Yanjun Zuo
Publisher
IGI Global
ISBN
9781615207626
DOI
10.4018/978-1-61520-761-9.ch016
Citation Information
Lei Chen, Shaoen Wu, Yiming Ji and Ming Yang. "Mobile and Handheld Security" Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts, and Technologies (2010) p. 313 - 327
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lei-chen/51/