SecureCSocial: Secure Cloud-Based Social Network

The use of online social networks (OSNs) has grown exponentially in recent years, and these OSNs continue to have an ever-increasing impact on human lives. There are many concerns regarding the privacy of users in these environments, such as how trustworthy the social network operators (SNOs) are.

This book presents a way to tackle the security and privacy issues in current OSNs through a new framework for online social networking, based on distributed cloud-based datacenters (CDCs) and using Shamir's secret sharing (SSS) as the method of encrypting user profile data. The framework aims to fulfill two contradictory goals: maintaining the utility of an OSN and preserving privacy of its users. The key feature of the framework lies in relinquishing control of a central authority over user's data (which is what usually happens in the current OSNs, e.g. Facebook keeps all our data) and distributing it to multiple CDCs in encrypted form. The use of SSS ensures perfect security, which means that the security of data does not rely on any unproven computational assumptions.

In this unique book, SNOs are considered as an adversary instead of external adversary. This paves the way for researchers to think beyond the privacy setting mechanism within an OSN to protect users' data.
Contents: Understanding Security and Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks:IntroductionBackground and Related WorkSecureCSocial: Network Architecture and Functions:The Fundamental Network Architecture and Other Preliminaries of the Proposed SolutionOperations and Functions in the Proposed OSNPrototype Implementation and Analysis of SecureCSocial:Security Analysis of the Proposed ArchitectureFeasibility, Performance, and Scalability AnalysisConclusions and Future Works
Readership: This books is intended for social network users and researchers focusing on security and privacy issues in online social networks. Security;Privacy;Online Social Networks;Cloud0Key Features:Existing books mostly cover the security and privacy issues within OSNs from the perspective of external adversaries and other OSN users. This book is unique as it considers the Social Networking Operators as an adversaryThe OSN architecture described in this book provides better network security to users' dataThis book paves a way for researchers to think beyond the privacy setting mechanism within an OSN to protect users' data