Wireless and Mobile Device Security, 2nd Edition

The Mobile Cloud

Over the last decade, cloud computing has emerged as a major disruptor in enterprise security architecture. Businesses of all sizes have shifted operations away from the data center toward the cloud. Cloud architecture provides a convenient, efficient, and often cost-effective way of hosting applications over the Internet. The cloud model also brings on-demand as well as self-service access to virtual and physical computing resources via the Internet, delivering true anytime, anywhere, on anything-style computing.

Cloud-based architecture has many advantages; one of the main advantages of the cloud is to provide the users or clients with easy access to business applications and a huge amount of information from anywhere that ...