Enterprise Application Security in Android Devices Using Short Messaging Service under Unified Communication Framework

In this present era of IoT (Internet of Things) where billions of devices are to be connected and operated under a single communication framework, Unified communication is evolving with each passing day, by making its presence felt in several user scenarios like display of presence information of email recipients, text and video chat through IM etc. User can avail information through various video channels. It enables customers to get data through various information channel thus provides a faster message delivery. However this technology is widely used in laptops/computers. Recent study shows the scope of developing this technology in mobile based environments is on upper side. However there are two major security concerns during using mobile devices for work purpose. First, preventing data theft / data corruption during data flow through the network, and second, preventing data theft when the mobile device is lost / misplaced. First one may easily be resolved by using cryptography APIs, Encryption-Decryption algorithm etc. This paper focuses on the second aspect and tried to provide a unique way to solve the problem by using unified communication technologies and thereby minimizing the effect of losing mobile phones or other computing devices. This work tried to reduce the window time for stealing confidential data from mobile phone. The idea is to develop a Short Messaging Service (SMS) based system and a web based application that interacts with database and remotely wipe out the access rights to enterprise application of a mobile phone and minimize the data theft window.