Mobile OS - Features, Concepts and Challenges for Enterprise Environments

The impact of mobile devices in our life is increasing continuously. Especially the integration of mobile devices into an enterprise environment is a hot topic these days. The following paper should give an overview about the state of the art of features, concepts and challenges of mobile operating systems to integrate them into an enterprise environment. Therefore it is necessary to show what kind of policies are needed for using a mobile device in an enterprise environment and to analyse how currently available mobile operating systems and their specific policies and security mechanisms can fulfill these requirements.