摘要：The use of mobile devices on such a large scale drives attention on their specific security issues like social engineering attacks, sensitive and personal data theft. Many studies show that the majority of users doesn't have a proper education or culture on securing their data kept on mobile devices. The paper analyses the relation between security and usability in mobile platforms, emphasizing the main security threats and the vulnerabilities that generate them. Also, best practices and metrics are proposed in order to improve the future studies related to this topic
关键词：Usability; Security; Mobile; Applications; Devices; Metrics; API
