The recent advancements in Information Technology have brought considerable changes in the way tasks are accomplished across the globe. The world has become a more connected place and a major impact as well as reason of this can be attributed to the steep rise in the usage of mobile devices. Mobile devices are being used for online payments in the form of shopping, money transfers, bill payments and what not. The majority of monetary transactions on the Internet now take place through mobile devices and therefore, mobile payment systems being wireless systems calls for an even more secure protocols and payment environment. Although the various security protocols available today boast of implementing the security requirements i.e. data confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, authentication and authorization, still the security of mcommerce transactions remain a major concern for mobile payment users. A number of m-commerce security techniques, models and protocols have been proposed by authors in recent past. This paper presents the recent advancements of the models and techniques authors proposed and the technologies and protocols used in these models. The paper also highlights the open areas of research in the field.
Engineering Authentication Process with Cloud Computing
