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2012年4月28日星期六

Online Social Network Security


1. Conventional Security Services

The following are considered to be the security services which can be provided optionally within the framework of the OSI Reference Model. The authentication services require authentication information comprising locally stored information and data that is transferred (credentials) to facilitate the authentication.
Authentication
These services including peer entity authentication and data origin authentication can provide for the authentication of a communicating peer entity and the source of data.
Access control
This service provides protection against unauthorized use of resources accessible via OSI. These may be OSI or non-OSI resources accessed via OSI protocols. This protection service may be applied to various types of access to a resource or to all accesses to a resource.
Data confidentiality
These services including connection confidentiality, connectionless confidentiality, selective field confidentiality and traffic flow confidentiality can provide for the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure.
Data integrity
These services including connection integrity with recovery, connection integrity without recovery, selective field connection integrity, connectionless integrity and selective field connectionless integrity can counter active threats.
Non-repudiation
This service may take one or both of two forms: non-repudiation with proof of origin and non-repudiation with proof of delivery. Non-repudiation with proof of origin: The recipient of data is provided with proof of the origin of data. This will protect against any attempt by the sender to falsely deny sending the data or its contents. Non-repudiation with proof of delivery: The sender of data is provided with proof of delivery of data. This will protect against any subsequent attempt by the recipient to falsely deny receiving the data or its contents.

2. Social Network Security Objectives

Three main security objectives are privacy, integrity and availability.
Privacy
Privacy in OSNs encompasses user profile privacy, communication privacy, message confidentiality and information disclosure. In principle, privacy calls for the possibility to hide any information about any user, even to the extent of hiding their participation in the OSN in the first place. Moreover privacy has to be met by default all information on all users and their actions has to be hidden from any other party internal or external to the system, unless explicitly disclosed by the users themselves. Requiring explicit disclosure leads to the need for access control. Access to information on a user may only be granted by the user directly the access control has to be as finegrained as the profile, and each attribute has to be separately manageable.
Integrity
The user’s identity and data must be protected against unauthorized modification and tampering. In addition to conventional modification detection and message authentication, integrity in the context of OSNs has to be extended. The authentication has to ensure the existence of real persons behind registered OSN members.
Availability
In OSNs, this availability specifically has to include robustness against censorship, and the seizure or hijacking of names and other key words. Apart from availability of data access, availability has to be ensured along with message exchange among members

3. Differences

Conventional security services also provide the authentication, access control and non-repudiation services while OSNs do not. OSNs provide the privacy and availability services while conventional security services do not. And OSNs extend the integrity service.
It’s because social network contains mass of the real information. And information or message posted to the social network can reflect the real life of the owners. So the privacy is very important. Majority members act on the social website every second. And some applications whether they are third-party applications or not need the information from the social network. So the social network should provide the availability services. In other networks, different networks have different demands in the security services.

4. Revise

The second part of the blog contents was come from the lecture notes 10 (slides 6-10). The first part of the blog contents was come from the internet. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_service_%28telecommunication%29. And the third part comes from my own ideas after the reading and comparison between the conventional security services and OSNs.

4 条评论:

  1. Your tips about blog writing is useful. Yes, a tool like blogger should first be easy to use, easy to write, easy to share. Then people will feel relaxed to use it in a easy way. In a impromptu way, many sparks of thought are produced. And more people are attracted to use it. I think the success of blog is the success of the concept of feel free to be your own radio.

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  2. You mentioned conventional security services and social network security objectives. That is important.
    The problem of security in web2.0 is much more complicated than web1.0. Because in web2.0, the concept of network was impressively expanded. The concern about the security of social networks becomes more important. For example, one may post his profile on the website which only can be seen by his friend. But the definition of friend on a social network is relax, which can not as a guarantee of private information. You can find out many problems same like. More research about security of social network is needed.

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  3. very good summarize,and is very useful for review

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  4. I agree that social networks are critical infrastructure now and hacking is increasingly a criminal profession. Your post help me to revise what i learned in lecture. Thanks a lot.

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