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Social Networking: Cyber Communities and Security Issues

Authors:
Ahmed Shaftab

Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); Information and Communications Technology (ICT); Internet of Things (IOT); Cloud Service Provider (CSP); Cyber Communities (CC)

Abstract:
The world is experiencing a smart change of life style as a result of a wide range of developments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. The computation and storage centers are vanishing in the cloud domain leaving human communication interface as the only requirement for using these resources. Evolving cyber communities (CC) are groups of users having common interest areas. Information sharing across such communities is easily possible which, leads to more complexity and vulnerabilities. The platform independent applications in service oriented architectures (SOA) over the web offer a variety of opportunities for users of all walks of life. They are able to create mashups integrating different applications and services to suit their requirements. Cloud service providers (CSP) extend the social network applications for information collection and conducting surveys for business and marketing strategies. Internet of things (IOT) is a concept to converge data, process and people to extend business applications in virtual domain. ICT applications over cloud architecture are ubiquitous and pervasive; developers are extending the concept to develop smart city and smart home architectures for the future. In this paper, we address the challenges offered by growing interest in social networking and ease of information availability for applications in virtual domain. Various new issues have to be carefully studied as the component of human interaction has to be controlled besides the information security to avoid miss use of information.

Pages: 29 to 35

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-521-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016