Section 1 – Network Systems Engineering 3 Mobile Devices Personal or Corporate providing a Mechanism for Security

In last couple of years use of advanced mobile devices such as PDA and smartphone has become a regular practice in both office and home environment. This devices are capable of performing advanced operation such as storing information, downloading files, and transmitting and receiving information in both wired and wireless environments, they increases productivity of the organisation. On the other hand using these devices for the above application, without proper security measures provides potential risk to the user. There are current technologies such as on device authentication, encryption, antivirus software are available to provide security, but there no unified framework provided to describe which security mechanism is applicable to which users. In this project users have been divided into two basic groups, personal and corporate. The main aim is two develop a unified framework, which will provide security to all the personal and corporate users, using different technology and using the device for different application. In order to develop a security mechanism it is necessary to know what risk the devices provide and how they affect the user. It is also necessary to know the current technologies available, and the amount of protection they ca