architecture [32]. The Web API, specifically, the
Representational State Transfer (REST) [7] API technology
has been dramatically growth [30] and broadly adopted by
enterprises due to needs from cloud computing and mobile
computing, of cause, mobile cloud computing.
MCC is the combination of cloud computing and mobile
computing, therefore, except for MCC itself challenges
[20][26] , it also has challenges from both cloud and mobile
computing[29][31] . Specifically, the security is a top concern
for enterprises. A 2013 survey [23] shows 65% of
organizations list security as their top concern in
implementing cloud. Recently, iCloud’s security issue
increased security concern about data stored in the cloud. Our
work in this paper defines an secure hybrid mobile cloud
reference architecture with end-to-end security approach and
mainly describes the Web API security technologies for
securing mobile cloud.
This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 defines the
end-to-end mobile cloud security through a secure mobile
cloud reference architecture. Section 3 describes Web API
security technologies. Section 4 provides a case study on Web
Security application in mobile cloud computing. Section 5
discusses the related work; Section 6 summarizes conclusions
of this paper.