Title :
Multi-factor web API security for securing Mobile Cloud
Author :
Longji Tang; Liubo Ouyang;Wei-Tek Tsai
Author_Institution :
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Abstract :
Mobile Cloud Computing is gaining more popularity in both mobile users and enterprises. With mobile-first becoming enterprise IT strategy and more enterprises exposing their business services to mobile cloud through Web API, the security of mobile cloud computing becomes a main concern and key successful factor as well. This paper shows the security challenges of mobile cloud computing and defines an end-to-end secure mobile cloud computing reference architecture. Then it shows Web API security is a key to the end-to-end security stack and specifies traditional API security mechanism and two multi-factor Web API security strategy and mechanism. Finally, it compares the security features provided by ten API gateway providers.
Keywords :
"Cloud computing","Mobile communication","Authorization","Authentication","Business"
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2015 12th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/FSKD.2015.7382287