• DocumentCode
    1392475
  • Title

    Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

  • Author

    Hurlburt, George ; Voas, Jeffrey ; Miller, Keith W.

  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    9
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement of the 21st century. Nobody knows what the full impact of this transformation will be, but it´s clear that our embrace of, and reliance on, cheap and easily accessible information presents unprecedented security implications - the enormity of which we have yet to grasp.
  • Keywords
    mobile handsets; security of data; information processing power; mobile-app addiction; security implications; Information processing; Network security; Technological innovation; Keywords: Mobile apps; commodity computing; information technology; security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2011.104
  • Filename
    6096589