Developing a secured social networking site using information security awareness techniques

Abstract

Background: Ever since social network sites (SNS) became a global phenomenon in almost every industry, security has become a major concern to many SNS stakeholders. Several security techniques have been invented towards addressing SNS security, but information security awareness (ISA) remains a critical point. Whilst very few users have used social circles and applications because of a lack of users’ awareness, the majority have found it difficult to determine the basis of categorising friends in a meaningful way for privacy and security policies settings. This has confirmed that technical control is just part of the security solutions and not necessarily a total solution. Changing human behaviour on SNSs is essential; hence the need for a privately enhanced ISA SNS.Objective: This article presented sOcialistOnline – a newly developed SNS, duly secured and platform independent with various ISA techniques fully implemented.Method: Following a detailed literature review of the related works, the SNS was developed on the basis of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) approach, using PhP as the coding language with the MySQL database engine at the back end.Result: This study addressed the SNS requirements of privacy, security and services, and attributed them as the basis of architectural design for sOcialistOnline. SNS users are more aware of potential risk and the possible consequences of unsecured behaviours.Conclusion: ISA is focussed on the users who are often the greatest security risk on SNSs, regardless of technical securities implemented. Therefore SNSs are required to incorporate effective ISA into their platform and ensure users are motivated to embrace it.

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“…This is because there are attestations that suggest that mortal vulnerabilities are decreasingly exploiting information systems [33]. Some experimenters have noted a number of reasons for this, such as problems with the usability of information systems [5], [13], and [21], compromised opinions by druggies [12] and limited capability to misbehave with Knowledge Management Systems or instructions [6], and [29]. Still, [9] epitomized and distributed these miscalculations into four orders processes ( operation process and specialized design operation methodologies), people involved in a design, product design size, and urgency, including its pretensions, performance, robustness, and trustability), and technology (IS failures performing from the use and abuse of ultramodern technology).…”

“…Other good practices included methodologies that impact the assessment of crucial elements and applications that identifies and criticality examines the business processes in relation to confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data. In a social network site (SNS) for instance, some of the technical controls implemented are customization of access controls based on the users' groups and information type, setting privacy in a user-friendly way to make for flexibility, integrating with a user-friendly interface that is easily understood by any typical SNS user; and customized search implemented to further enhance the preservation of the user's privacy [21].…”

Security Issues with Mobile IT: A Narrative Review of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

“…This is because there is evidence that suggests that human vulnerabilities are increasingly exploiting information systems (Stewart & Lacey, 2012). Some researchers have noted a number of reasons for this, ranging from problems with the usability of information systems (Hartzog & Stutzman, 2013;Cristian & Volkamer, 2013;Okesola & Grobler, 2014), compromised decisions by users (Greavu-Serban & Serban, 2014) and limited ability to comply with Knowledge Management Systems or instructions (Shehata, 2015;de Albuquerque & dos Santos, 2015). However, Dwivedi, et al (2015) summarized and categorized these mistakes into four categories: process (management process and technical project management methodologies), people involved in a project, product (project size and urgency, including its goals, performance, robustness, and reliability), and technology (IS failures resulting from the use and misuse of modern technology).…”