Survey on security issues in mobile cloud computing and preventive measures

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a recent technology used by various people in their daily lives. It is estimated that roughly 1.5 billion smartphone users and 640 million tablet users in the world use mobile cloud computing. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is the blend of cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networks that brings rich computational resources to mobile users, network operators, as well as cloud computing providers.Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a recent technology used by various people worldwide. In 2015, more than 240 million users used mobile cloud computing which earns a profit of $5.2 billion for service providers. MCC is a combination of mobile computing and cloud computing that presents various challenges like network access, elasticity, management, availability, security, privacy etc. Here, the security issues involved in both mobile computing and cloud computing, such as data security, virtualization security, partitioning security, mobile cloud application security and mobile device security are considered extremely important. This paper presents a detailed study of security issues in mobile cloud computing and enumerates their preventive measures.