A comprehensive user survey was conducted to get information about what data is really stored on the mobile devices, how it is currently protected and if biometric authentication methods could improve the current state. This paper states the results from about 550 users of mobile devices. The analysis revealed a very low securtiy level of the devices. This is partly due to a low security awareness of their owners and partly due to the low acceptance of the offered authentication method based on PIN.
Frank Breitinger and Claudia Nickel. User Survey on Phone Security and Usage. In BIOSIG, 139–144. 2010.
@inproceedings{breitinger_user_2010,
author = {Breitinger, Frank and Nickel, Claudia},
booktitle = {{{BIOSIG}}},
pages = {139--144},
title = {User {{Survey}} on {{Phone Security}} and {{Usage}}},
year = {2010}
}