Mobile Device and Data Security using Iris Authentication, Malware Detection, Secured Cloud Storage and Retrieval

The Smartphones and PDA' s are powerful multifunctional devices capable of hosting a broad range of applications with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and GPS capabilities for both business and consumer use. The inception of the smartphone era can be seen as the beginning of smart applications with the new millennium. Portio research estimates that mobile subscribers worldwide will reach 6.9 billion by the end of 2013 and 8 billion by the end of 2016. The forecast says that mobile subscriptions will reach 9 billion by 2017. On the other hand, a mobile device is still a resource constrained one due to limitations such as processing power, low storage, less security, unpredictable Internet connection and few applications generally demand more resources than a mobile device can pay for.[ 4l [ 26 1 [ 49 1 [59] [60] Over the past few years, the usage of mobile devices to access data has becoming more frequent, and the usage of mobile devices in the applications such as web-browsing, email, multimedia, entertainment applications, navigation, trading stocks, electronic purchase, banking and health care are increasing. Therefore, device and data security is a major challenge. The need for efficient security solutions for mobile devices is essential with new functionalities.