Smartphone Operating System and Security: A Comparative Study

Running head: SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM
SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................3
Discussion......................................................................................................................3
Android operating system:.............................................................................................3
ios operating system:......................................................................................................4
Ubuntu Touch:...............................................................................................................4
Decision regarding the operating system with best security system:.............................5
Windows operating system:...........................................................................................5
Conclusion......................................................................................................................6

SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM
Introduction
Operating system in smartphone plays an important role in maintaining the security of
the smartphone (Wessel et al. 2015). There are various operating systems for smartphones
available in the market. The comparative discussion will indicate the level of security
involved in the system.
Discussion
Various available smartphone operating systems are android operating system,
blackberry operating system, Firefox operating system, Ubuntu Touch, windows operating
system, ios. Apart from that there are other open source operating systems which are used for
different smartphones (Das and Khan 2016). Among the smartphone operating systems the
most popular operating system is android operating system. This operating system is used
widely. The discussion regarding the security level of the different operating system has been
discussed following:
Android operating system:
Android mobile operating system is developed by Google. It is an open and free
software stack that includes system, middleware and key application systems necessary for
the mobile devices. The security update for the system is provided by the developer (Joshi
and Parekh 2016). The update of the software adds extra security patch those are capable of
preventing the sudden attacks in the smartphones. Apart from that with each update the
further technical enhancements are done.
There are various features for the security system for android operating system.
Security of Linux is used for the android operating system level. Secured inter process
communication is used for the communication between the two different application running