Anti-theft Cloud Apps for Android Operating System

Abstract

Cloud computing is one of the major technologies which has gained popularity in computer sciences and information technology domain. Cloud computing has changed the way of doing business by an enterprise in general and data management, retrieval & storage within a business enterprise in particular. Smartphone usage has grown rapidly in tandem with cloud computing by providing different services/applications using cloud computing. Most of the Smartphone do run on Android operating system. Android OS is the widely used Smartphone operating systems with huge user base. Everyday hundreds and thousands of application are added to the repository of Android by different vendors and are easily available for installation to android users. As most of the applications are developed by third party giving way to possible loopholes which result in different threats to security & privacy of data. These threats are critical when a user is suing cloud storage or services on Smartphone devices and if the device is stolen it may lead to access of information by an unauthorized user. This unauthorized access to information can be misused which creates distrust among the users of cloud computing on android devices. In this paper a methodology has been proposed to secure data and information from unauthorized access using android cloud application.